Mount Athos As Seen From Sithonia Royalty-Free Stock Image

Sithonia, also known as Longos, is a peninsula of Chalkidiki, which itself is located on a larger peninsula within Greece. The Kassandra Peninsula lies to the west of Sithonia and the Mount Athos peninsula to the east. Sithonia is also a municipality, covering the Sithonia peninsula. The seat of the municipality is the town Nikiti.Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Hellenic Republic. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.Mount Athos is commonly referred to in Greek as the Agion Oros, and the entity as the `Athonite State` . Other languages of Orthodox tradition also use names translating to `Holy Mountain`. This includes Bulgarian and Serbian; Russian; and Georgian. In the classical era, while the mountain was called Athos, the peninsula was known as Acté or Akté.