Visual Timeline: Mount Athos

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883 CE: A decree by Byzantine emperor Basil I is the first recorded evidence of a monastery on Mount Athos.
 
 
941 CE: Byzantine Emperor Romanos I grants pension rights to the monks on Mount Athos.
 
 
963 CE: The Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos is founded by Saint Athanasios.
 
 
980 CE: The Iviron monastery on Mount Athos is founded by Georgian monks.
 
1304 CE - 1309 CE: Spanish mercenaries of the Catalan Grand Company attack the monasteries on Mount Athos.
 
 
1430 CE: The Ottoman Empire grants Mount Athos and its monasteries independence in exchange for annual tribute.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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