Athos

(Mount.) (ath'os.) [Mod.Gr. Agion-oros.] A celebrated promontory of Greece, at the extremity of the peninsula of Chalcis, 80 m. S.E. of Salonica; culminating point, b. 778ft. in elevation. Lat. 46° 16′ N., Lon. 24° 10' E. Mount A. has been occupied from a remote period by a number of fortified convents, chapels, cells, and grottoes, which, not long ago, were still occupied by more than 4,000 monks, -whence the name of Monte-Santo, often applied to it. H [s. 57]