Papikio
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Papikio () is a mountain in Rhodope, Greece. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period. Today, Byzantine monastery ruins can be found on the mountain.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_scale, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Byzantine monasteries in Greece, Geography of Thrace and Mountains associated with Byzantine monasticism.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Komotini Mountains
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Iasmos Municipality
- Elevation
- 1510
- Image
- 20100126 Papikio Mountain Winter Rhodope Thrace Greece.jpg
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- Papikio
- described at URL
- odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=2649
- native label
- Παπίκιο
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Papikio () is a mountain in Rhodope, Greece. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period. Today, Byzantine monastery ruins can be found on the mountain.
In Bulgarian, Papikio is known as Orlitsa (). In Turkish, it is known as Kartal Dağı. It is the highest point of the Eastern Rhodopes as well as the highest summit of the Komotini Ridge (), which is shared by Bulgaria and Greece. The southernmost point of Bulgaria, Veykata (1463 m; ) is located a few kilometres to the north of Papikio.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Papikio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations