Category Archives: maps

2303 – an old Athos map of André Thevet from 1575

Posted on January 13, 2024 by athosweblog

In 1554 a Franciscan friar of Angoulěme/France, André Thevet, published his first book, Cosmographie de Levant. The author had recently returned from a three year journey to Constantinople and the Holy Land, and the Cosmographie was the first of a number of geographical works. … Continue reading →

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2266 – more Athos maps

Posted on May 11, 2023 by athosweblog

A map from 1585 Abraham Ortelius, a Brabantian cartographer from Antwerp, with antique Greek names of villages on Athos 1650 Alexander à Via Venice engraving folding map Athos, with texts in Greek, Latin and Cyrillic Detail of the left top … Continue reading →

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2130 – Looking at the Sporades

Posted on April 12, 2020 by athosweblog

The monastery of  Simonos Petras is, as it were, glued to a mountainous rock of 330 meter above sea level. Views in all directions are stunning  while standing on the balcony. Looking to the left, a view on Sithonia , … Continue reading →

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2106 – The Athos maps of Piri Reis

Posted on February 16, 2020 by athosweblog

The author of this blog is our Athos friend Japetus, who is an expert on maps. Many thanks for this fine translation and interesting story. Piri Reis was an Ottoman admiral who, after having travelled all around the mediterranean and … Continue reading →

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2068 – two old Athos maps and two (old) books

Posted on August 14, 2019 by athosweblog

Sometimes beautiful treasures are not far away. Our fellow Athos pilgrim Jacques from Haarlem stumbled upon a second hand bookshop in Amsterdam, showing numerous Athos books in the window. When I visited the antiquarian bookshop last week the owner told … Continue reading →

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1985 – The aqueduct of Iviron

Posted on March 15, 2018 by athosweblog

The easter procession with the icon of the Panagia Portaitissa in 1917 with on the left, a  part of the aqueduct of Iviron.  The monks are about to pass the large arche of the structure. Notice also the scaffolding, to … Continue reading →

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1966 – Ottoman maps of Agios Oros

Posted on December 23, 2017 by athosweblog

 This old Ottoman map is on paper and part of a manuscript by Piri Reis on navigation. Very nice hand coloured map with the monasteries visible and the Island of Thasos on the right. Here is more information.  Athos on … Continue reading →

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1960 – very detailed high res French army map 1939

Posted on December 3, 2017 by athosweblog

A fragment of a new discovered map (thanks to Peter Howorth) made by the French army in 1939. Very detailed and rather accurate. Above three Russian buildings, on the left the monastery of Panteleimonos in the middle Paleomonasterio, here named … Continue reading →

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1953 – the wild Mylopotamos river

Posted on November 19, 2017 by athosweblog

This video (by Keliotes) of the Mylopotamos river near Filotheou is made yesterday. A lot of rain is recently fallen in Greece.On the very accurate and up to date Athos map of Peter Howorth (order at http://www.filathonites.org/) the course of the … Continue reading →

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1795 – update online Athos map

Posted on February 21, 2016 by athosweblog

With the help of the new Athos map  – as mentioned below in post 1794 – I updated the online Athos-map on Community Walk (also see Links in the right column of this blog). Wim Voogd, 21-02

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