A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Mount Athos in northeastern Greece late on Saturday afternoon, generating concerns.

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

A Greek choir sang in Greek at his Coronation. He reportedly has a collection of Byzantine icons in his home at Highgrove, many of them from Mount Athos, the holiest site in the Orthodox Church.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck Mount Athos on Saturday afternoon (February 15) at 18:11, and was ...

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to people in general," Putin said after a welcoming speech by Protos Paulos of Mount Athos, and thanking the Ecumenical Patriarch and primates of the Greek Orthodox Church for what they do to ...