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1433 – cards and maps

Posted on July 25, 2013 by athosweblog

Here are some more rare cards from Athos and a few maps: I will start with this Russian card from 1908, strangly enough with Mary and a LOT a women setting foot on the Holy Mountain and climbing it! can … Continue reading →

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1267 – art: more drawings from Dominique Papety 1846-47

Posted on January 23, 2012 by athosweblog

Arsanas Lavra Drawing Arsanas Karakalou Arsanas Lavra Drawing Arsanas Lavra Details of Iviron monastery Iviron Athos and mountain Wim, 30/1

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1262 – new Athos map (and some older ones)

Posted on January 23, 2012 by athosweblog

A new Athos map is published 2011 by Rama Editions. New Athos map It is for sale for 7 or 8 euros in the bookshop opposite of the tower in Ouranopolis. The owner was sceptical about the quality, because the … Continue reading →

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1249 – new Athos map (and some older ones)

Posted on January 4, 2012 by athosweblog

A new Athos map is published 2011 by Rama Editions. New Athos map It is for sale for 7 or 8 euros in the bookshop opposite of the tower in Ouranopolis. The owner was sceptical about the quality, because the … Continue reading →

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1219 – detailed Greek map of Athos

Posted on May 3, 2011 by athosweblog

Last week I was lucky to but a very special and detailed map from a internetshop in Thessaloniki, “Chartis Agiou Oros – Chersonisou Atho” (Map of the Holy Mountain – Peninsula Athos). The map is made a Greek architect, mr. E. Papasotiriou. This … Continue reading →

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1196 – High res map

Posted on March 4, 2011 by athosweblog

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1176 – Zwergers book "Wege am Athos": old paths and deathly victims

Posted on January 20, 2011 by athosweblog

Skulls of monks in the ossuarium of Bogoroditsa In Blog nr 1119 I wrote my first impressions about this book (buy it here!). It is not an easy task to make a summary of its contents, because mr Zwerger chose to write … Continue reading →

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1123 – Xerxes canal on Dutch school map

Posted on October 13, 2010 by athosweblog

When walking on a streetmarket in my hometown Haarlem The Netherlands I came across this school map with routes of ancient  historic expeditions. As you can see that the route Xerxes took is visible on the map. As the story goes … Continue reading →

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1076 – Athos GPS maps for hikers from Sotiris

Posted on June 15, 2010 by athosweblog

In the comment of Sotiris to our last blog he gave me a big releave: the hike through the Aeropotamos was a much better choice then the path on other side, because of the rough terrain and the lack of signs. He … Continue reading →

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1057 – maps: Papadopoulos 1967 and more

Posted on May 15, 2010 by athosweblog

In blog 864 I showed you the Papadopoulos map from 1967, published in 1978. Fremaki asked me to publish a better – high resolution – image of this map. Finally I found the time to fullfil the request. The original … Continue reading →

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