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Business Definition for: Athos
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Wiktionary Definition for: Athos
- #(''Greek mythology'') one of the Gigantes
- A peninsula in Greece containing Mount Athos
Additional Resources
- Prince Charles on pilgrimage at Greece's Mount Athos
- ATHENS AFP — Britain's Prince Charles is staying at one of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos, one of the Greek Orthodox Church's holiest sites, where women are banned, officials there said. The heir to the British throne has been a frequent pilgrim at the Mount over recent years...
- Research articles 2005-05-13
- Putin begins long-wished for Mount Athos Orthodox pilgrimage
- PORTO CARRAS, Greece AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin made a long-desired private pilgrimage to Mount Athos, the first head of state of his country to visit the monastic community in northern Greece considered one of Orthodox Christianity's holiest sites. Putin, who had to call off planned visits in...
- Research articles 2005-09-09
- Britain's Prince Charles on Greek monastery holiday
- ATHENS AFP — Britain's Prince Charles is vacationing in an Orthodox monastery in Greece's Mount Athos, a region barred to women, an administration spokesman said. Greek Orthodox priest Father Nikodimos said the heir to the British throne had arrived Thursday for his regular May sojourn at Vatopedi Monastery. ...
- Research articles 2006-05-12
- Willis Strengthens Presence in Latin America with Two Acquisitions
- NEW YORK -- Willis Group Holdings (NYSE:WSH), the global insurance broker, today announces that it has strengthened its presence in Latin America with the acquisition of both JH Asesores y Corredores de Seguros S.A. JHA, a leading broker in Lima, Peru, and K.R. Athos Consultoria e Corretora de Seguro de...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- Officials struggle to clean up oil tanker spill near Philadelphia
- WASHINGTON AFP — Authorities near Philadelphia battled to contain an oil slick after a Cyprus-flagged tanker on its way to a Citgo refinery spilled 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of crude into a nearby river, the US Coast Guard said. The Athos I began leaking late Friday, as it pumped...
- Research articles 2004-11-27
- Delaware River Oil Spill Fouls 85 Miles of Shoreline
- TRENTON, New Jersey ENS — --> Oil spilled into the Delware River by the Cyprus registered tanker Athos I last week has now impacted 85 miles of shoreline, and federal officials working at the site of the spill say an "unknown quantity of oil" is still in the river. ...
- Research articles 2004-12-09
- Aperto Networks WiMAX Gear Selected for Greek Deployment
- Aperto Networks, builder of the world's most advanced WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM base stations and subscriber units, today announced that Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.), the largest telecommunications provider in Greece, will field Aperto Networks' PacketMAXTM broadband wireless networking gear in a pilot deployment at Mount Athos in the Halkidiki region...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- He reports to Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
- D'Artagnan Bebel, credited with boosting revenue in Indianapolis during three and a half years as general sales manager for NBC affiliate WTHR TV, has been named vice president and general manager of Fox-owned WHBQ-TV Memphis. In addition to the now-filled GM vacancy, the station has been...
- Research articles 1998-08-17
- George Bush Snr holidays in Greece
- SALONIKA, GREECE AFP — Former US president George HW Bush arrived in Greece on Monday for a week-long holiday to the Greek islands and the reclusive monastic community of Mount Athos, a police source said Monday. Accompanied by his son Jeb -- the former governor of Florida -- and...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- The war against fear - Guest Column - learning from differences between Christianity and other religions - Brief Article
- A little while ago, I made a visit to Mount Athos, in Greece, to make a programme for BBC radio about that ancient centre of monasticism--one of the holiest places of Orthodox Christianity. After a complex process of permits and passports and a journey by air, road, sea, bus and...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Sava, St
- Sava, St ( c. 1175–1235), also Sabas , patron of Serbia . In 1191 Rastko, a son of the Serbian king, went secretly to Mount Athos and became a monk under the name Sava. In 1206 he returned to...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Sava of Serbia
- Sava of Serbia Sabas of Serbia (1173–1236), first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian church. Born in Tirnovo Bulgaria, the third son of prince Stephen Nemanya who achieved permanent independence from Byzantium for the Serbs, Sava became a monk...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
- Athens, Greece Price Charles rejoins yacht --- Prince Charles rejoined a yacht sailing in the Aegean Sea on Friday after bad weather forced him to spend three days on the all-male enclave of Mount Athos. Gale-force winds and rough seas battering the area since Wednesday abated...
- Research articles 2000-05-06
