Athos

Mount, or Hagion-Oros, or Monte-Santo, a famous mountain of Turkey in Europe, on a peninsula projecting into the Agean Sea, between the Gulfs of Contes a and Monte-Santo. In modern _ times, Athos has been occupied for an extended period by a number of monks of the Greek Church, who live in a sort of fortified monasteries, in number about 20, of different degrees, of magnitude and importance. These, with the farms or me to chis attached to them, occupy the whole peninsula; hence it has derived its modern name of Monte-Santo.