Definition of Mount Athos

1. Noun. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.

Exact synonyms: Athos
Generic synonyms: District, Dominion, Territorial Dominion, Territory
Group relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount Athos

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Mouffean
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Mount Adams
Mount Ararat
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Mount Athos (current term)
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Mount Godwin Austen
Mount Hubbard
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Mount Megiddo

Literary usage of Mount Athos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"In strong contrast to this general upheaval is the monastic community living on Mount Athos, on a promontory projecting from the southern part of Macedonia. ..."

2. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"—Laurel of Tempe—Banditti—Length of the Pass—Appearance upon leaving the Defile—Heraclea —Turkish Funeral — Height of Olympus — Mount Athos— ..."

3. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"Of these, the most remarkable is Mount Athos, now called ... Mount Athos is a high wooded ridge of about thirty miles in length, running out into the sea, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The mosaics of this period in the churches of Mount Athos are all lost excepting a few figures at Vatopedi. In France, Abbot Suger had mosaics executed for ..."

5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... a town in Mount Athos, and confederate of the Athenians. This whole summer there was ... Mount Athos ..."

6. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"I have modelled Mount Athos in the form of a giant, holding in his right hand a city, and his left a shell, from which are discharged into the sea all the ..."

7. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"In strong contrast to this general upheaval is the monastic community living on Mount Athos, on a promontory projecting from the southern part of Macedonia. ..."

8. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"—Laurel of Tempe—Banditti—Length of the Pass—Appearance upon leaving the Defile—Heraclea —Turkish Funeral — Height of Olympus — Mount Athos— ..."

9. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"Of these, the most remarkable is Mount Athos, now called ... Mount Athos is a high wooded ridge of about thirty miles in length, running out into the sea, ..."

10. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The mosaics of this period in the churches of Mount Athos are all lost excepting a few figures at Vatopedi. In France, Abbot Suger had mosaics executed for ..."

11. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... a town in Mount Athos, and confederate of the Athenians. This whole summer there was ... Mount Athos ..."

12. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"I have modelled Mount Athos in the form of a giant, holding in his right hand a city, and his left a shell, from which are discharged into the sea all the ..."

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