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Tag Archives: Peter Howorth
2176 – 30 years FoMA: a promising new Athos book is published!
Already one month ago a reader of our weblog Bart Janssens announced that the publication of a new book could be expected soon (see his comment in ‘About’). He described it as a beautiful new book with stories, testimonies and … Continue reading
2106 – The Athos maps of Piri Reis
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
Posted in 01 Lavra, maps
Tagged amouliani, Japetus, Kitab-i Bahriye, Ottoman, Peter Howorth, Piri Reis
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2009 – Trees on the mountain slope between Chairi Pass and Stavros
In 2017 we walked around the mountain from Megistis Lavras monastery via Katounakia to Nea Skiti (not on this map by Peter Howorth but located between Sk. Anna and Paulou monastery). It took us the whole day, no roads only … Continue reading
1977 – Megistis Lavra, a walk around the monastery
The minivan drove us from Karies to Megistis Lavra. Every seat was taken. A long and winding dirt road takes you there. The old footpaths are mostly destroyed by the dirt road. Only short patches remain. We had been visited … Continue reading
1960 – very detailed high res French army map 1939
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
1955 – The story of the three WWII soldiers who came to thank the monks in 1944
In November 1944, three New Zealand servicemen (here two of them on the photo in front of Paulou monastery HV) went to Mount Athos in northern Greece, to present citations to various monasteries whose inhabitants, in spite of serious risks to … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 14 Paulou, 19 Panteleimonos, war
Tagged Peter Howorth, Sandy Thomas, Second world war
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1953 – the wild Mylopotamos river
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
1946 – the hike from Roussikon to Paleo Monastiro
On our first day of our 2017 pilgrimage to Athos we hiked from Roussikon to Paleo Monastiro, the old Roussikon. It is a 5,5 km hike over a dirt road, starting at sea level and ending at 455 meters. On the … Continue reading
Posted in Paleo Monastiro, trip 2017
Tagged 1000 years, FoMA, paleo monasterion, Peter Howorth, renovations, russians
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1794 – two new Athos maps – a review
Yesterday I received two recently published Athos maps by Filathonites. The maker is Peter Howorth from New Zealand. The map is also compiled by Roland Baetens from Belgium, a FoMA footpaths specialist and Dimitris Bakalis from Greece. John Arnell of FoMA … Continue reading
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