Karyes, Mount Athos
Karyes is a settlement in Mount Athos.
It is the seat of the clerical and secular administration of the Athonite monastic state.
The 2011 Greek census reported a population of 163 inhabitants.
It is the largest settlement in Mount Athos.
The major church at Karyes is the" Protaton", which is the church of the Protos, or president of the monastic community.
Bulgarian National Revival
The Bulgarian National Revival(" Balgarsko natsionalno vazrazhdane" or simply: Възраждане," Vazrazhdane"), sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule.
It is commonly accepted to have started with the historical book," Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya", written in 1762 by Paisius, a Bulgarian monk of the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos, and lasted until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 as a result of the Russo- Turkish War of 1877- 78.
Dionysiou Monastery
Dionysiou Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece in southwest part of Athos peninsula.
The monastery ranks fifth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
It is one of the twenty self- governing monasteries in Athos, and it was dedicated to John the Baptist.
Mount Athos
Mount Athos(" Áthos") 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 Greek 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" Holy MountainἍγιον ὌροςHágion Óros") and the entity as the" Athonite StateΑθωνική Πολιτεί α Athoniki Politia").
Other languages of Orthodox tradition also use names translating to" Holy Mountain", including Bulgarian and Serbian," Sveta gora"; Russian Святая гора," Svyataya gora"; Georgian მთაწმინდა," mtats ’ minda".
In the classical era, while the mountain was called" Athos", the peninsula was known as" Acté" or" Akté"( Ἀκτή).
Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1,800- year continuous Christian presence and its long historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 A.D. and the Byzantine era.
Today, over 2,000 monks from Greece and many other countries, including Eastern Orthodox countries such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world.
The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well- preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage site since 1988.
Although Mount Athos is legally part of the European Union like the rest of Greece, the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain and the Athonite institutions have a special jurisdiction which was reaffirmed during the admission of Greece to the European Community( precursor to the EU).
This empowers the Monastic State's authorities to regulate the free movement of people and goods in its territory; in particular, only males are allowed to enter.
Zograf monastery
The Saint George the Zograf Monastery or Zograf Monastery(" Moní Zográphou") is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos( the" Holy Mountain") in Greece.
It was founded in the late 9th or early 10th century by three Bulgarians from Ohrid and is regarded as the historical Bulgarian monastery on Mount Athos, and is traditionally inhabited by Bulgarian Orthodox monks.
The monastery is named after the 13th or 14th century icon of Saint George, known as Saint George the Zograf( Светѝ Гео̀рги Зогра̀ф).
The name of the latter comes from the belief that the icon mysteriously painted itself on the prepared board( in Greek means" painter"( from=" life" and=" scribe").
Aristocleus of Athos
Aristocleus of Athos( Аристоклий, Афонский& Московский)( 1838–1918) was a 19th- century Saint and martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He is also known as" Schema- hieromonk Aristocleus of Mount Athos and Moscow" or" Aristoklij the elder".
Kamalvand, Hamadan
Kamalvand( also Romanized as Kamālvand) is a village in Solgi Rural District, Khezel District, Nahavand County, Hamadan Province, Iran.
At the 2006 census, its population was 131, in 32 families.
William J. Lewis
William J. Lewis( July 4, 1766 – November 1, 1828) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Born in Augusta County, Virginia, Lewis attended the common schools.
He served as member of the State house of delegates.
Lewis was elected as a Democratic- Republican to the Fifteenth Congress( March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819).
He died at" Mount Athos" plantation, near Lynchburg, Virginia, November 1, 1828.
He was interred in a vault blasted out of a solid rock at the summit of" Mount Athos," Virginia.
Mount Athos was destroyed by fire in 1876, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as an archaeological site.
Grigorije Vasilije
Monk Grigorije also known as Grigorije Vasilije( c. 1550- after 1598) was tonsured into the Great Schema in the Tower of Saint Sava at Karyes, Mount Athos, where he got his second name Vasilije.
We have known him from a colophon in the Serbian recension of the Slavonic Josephus," The History of the Jewish War".
He transcribed and translated the Slavonic Josephus into Serbian vernacular at Karyes, the administrative center of Mount Athos, in 1585.
In addition, the Hilandar Monastery has preserved five petitions that hieromonk Grigorije in his frequent travels throughout Europe delivered to nobleman Nikita Romanov( the grandfather of the future tsar Michael of Russia) in April 1586; Andrej Jakovlević( two petitions written before 1582); Polish king Stephen Bathory; and Duke Andrey Kurbsky.
Also, these documents have been published by the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
According to records Grigorije Vasilije served as abbot of Hilandar in 1583, and multiple other occasions between 1588 and 1591 and continually from 1591 to 1598.
He also traveled between the far- flung Athonite methos( including Imperial Russia) and their parent establishments on regular errands as alms collecting, property administration and Diplomatic missions on behalf of the secular and spiritual leaders where he stayed at the Moscow courts of Ivan the Terrible and Dionysius, Metropolitan of Moscow and their successors Fedor I of Russia and Patriarch Job of Moscow, years later.
Upon his return voyage, Grogorije Vasilije traveled to Patriarchate of Peć in Ottoman- occupied Serbia to see his master Gerasim I and later the patriarch's successor Savatije I before resuming his trip back to Karyes, Mount Athos.
Ivan the Terrible's generosity shown to Serbian itinerant monk Grigorije and other Athonite monks accompanying him could be explained by the tsar ’s own recognition of his Serbian royal lineage( through his mother) and the desire to strengthen relations between Russia and Serbia.
Author Sreten Petković in" The Cultural Heritage of Serbia" attributes the presence of the 1564 fresco of Prince Lazar of Serbia in the Cathedral of the Archangel of the Moscow Kremlin to Tsar Ivan ’s attachment to his Serbian roots.
Additionally, the Church of the Archangel Michael contains depictions of Saint Sava, Saint Simeon, and the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologos.
Postage stamps and postal history of Mount Athos
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Mount Athos.

Question: Are Karyes, Mount Athos and Kamalvand, Hamadan both located in the same country?
Answer: no