At Karyes, the administrative center of Mt. Athos, Putin was greeted by the 20 abbots of the monasteries and 20 representatives of the monks, as well as a representative of the Greek Orthodox ...

I had met Job just this morning in Karyes, a dusty little town that serves as the administrative center of Mount Athos. There is a “government” office that deals with matters of customs ...

KARYES (Mount Athos), May 28. /TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to ...

Mount Athos Pilgrims' Bureau, 109 Egnatia St., GR-54635 Thessaloniki, Greece, 011-30-2310-252578. Gives entry permits for Mount Athos, which admits about 120 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox visitors ...

The undersea quake had a depth of just 12.5 kilometres (7.7 miles) and struck northwest of the enclave's administrative capital of Karyes. A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek ...

It was while visiting Mount Athos, more than a quarter of a century ago, that I first heard the Soviet Union would collapse—and would do so in my lifetime. There, in northeastern Greece one ...

A police statement Tuesday said the 48-year-old was arrested in Karyes, administrative center of Mount Athos, the 1,000-year-old Greek Orthodox monastic community.

At Karyes, the administrative center of Mount Athos, Putin was greeted by the 20 abbots of the monasteries and 20 representatives of the monks on the peninsula, as well as a representative of the ...

A view from the sea of the Russian monastery St. Panteleimon in Karyes, on Mount Athos, Greece, Friday, May 27, 2016. Russia's president is due in financially struggling Greece Friday for a state ...

Mount Athos still follows the Julian calendar, and is 13 days behind the rest of the planet. Monks — and visitors — start their day at 4 a.m., and monasteries bar their doors to all after sunset.