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1713 – Athos book from Poland 1908

Posted on April 20, 2015 by athosweblog

On Europeana I found this complete book by X. Marcin Czerminski T. J. called Na górze Athos wśród mniszej republiki (The monastic republic of Mount Athos) in Polish. Here are some interesting photographs: This is again a photo of the … Continue reading →

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1709 – Athos pictures from a French photo album from 1917-1918

Posted on April 9, 2015 by athosweblog

These pictures are from a privat photo album, shot during the First World War by a French “Aviateur”. He visited Athos at the same time as Gabriel Millet did, who published part of his pictures in his book “Monuments de … Continue reading →

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1708 – French Athos map from 1780

Posted on April 8, 2015 by athosweblog

“Carte du Sud-est de la Chalcidique, avec les presqu’îles du Mont-Athos de Longos et de partie de Cassandra”, from 1780 The map is not very accurate, but it is one of the better and detailed Athos maps I have seen. Between … Continue reading →

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1689 – some different Athos images

Posted on March 5, 2015 by athosweblog

1846: the Iviron monastery 1866 Claude Spero: Pen and Ink Drawing, Monastery of Simopetra on Mount Athos 1912 French magazine: arsanas Lavra 1909 Débarquement au Mont Athos 1911: Sketch of mount Athos from the hotel Karyes Origin JEANNERET , together with … Continue reading →

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1685 – Athos in the 1930ties

Posted on February 26, 2015 by athosweblog

This post is dedicated to F. John Herbert from Iowa, USA because of his very warm and stimulating words in the comment he made in the About section of this blog. Thanks very much. You made our day. The webmasters. … Continue reading →

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1616 – Millennium Celebration On Mount Athos (963 – 1963)

Posted on August 19, 2014 by athosweblog

King Paul of Greece (and his son Constantine) walks with Patriarch Athinagora and other religious leaders in Karyes.

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1556 – book: The early days of monasticism on Mount Athos by Kirsopp Lake 1909

Posted on June 4, 2014 by athosweblog

An interesting book about the early history of the Holy Mountain, the complete book is online available here and here is a PDF version: earlydaysofmonas00lakerich Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946) was teaching Early Christian Literature at the university of Leiden in the Netherlands. The … Continue reading →

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1529 – Many crafts on holy ground

Posted on April 1, 2014 by athosweblog

These following pictures are made in the years 1860-70 when the Russian monastery of Panteleimonos was inhabited by large numbers of monks. The estimate is that, at that time,  more then 1500 monks lived in the monastery and the surrounding … Continue reading →

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1506 – Pre-Christians remnants

Posted on January 26, 2014 by athosweblog

In antiquity there were five cities to be found on the Mt. Athos pensinsula. According to Graham Speake in Renewal in Paradise the site of none of them is known for certain. On the map the places where probably the … Continue reading →

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1473 – old Athos pictures/postcards

Posted on November 13, 2013 by athosweblog

Here some new interesting pictures that I found lately: 1913:  colourised photo above shows guards of a Greek monastery in Mount Athos, after having repelled Bulgarian invaders (1913). Some are possibly monks and there is one Gendarme among them. 1918 … Continue reading →

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