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 ...
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11 Romanian pilgrims are in a Greek hospital after eating poisonous wild mushrooms on Mount AthosThey left on an overnight hike up the mountain where they gathered and ate ... many of which look very similar to harmless fungi. Mount Athos and its late medieval monasteries is a popular ...
The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...
Patriarch Kirill’s spokesman said that Athos "is the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with all that it implies" MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. Russian Orthodox ...
An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times. The 'Holy Mountain', which is forbidden to women and children, is also a recognized ...
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