Some languages of Orthodox tradition use names translating to 'Holy Mountain', these include Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian ( Света Гора, Sveta Gora Svyataya Gora) and Georgian ( მთაწმინდა, mtats’minda). In the classical era, while the mountain was called Athos, the peninsula was known as Acté or Akté ( Koinē Greek: Ἀκτή). In modern Greek, Mount Athos is referred to as Oros Athos ( Greek: Όρος Άθως), the peninsula as Hersonisos tou Atho ( Greek: Χερσόνησος του Άθω), while the designation Agio Oros ( Greek: Άγιο Όρος) translating to 'Holy Mountain' is used to denote the autonomous region of Greece governed by the monastic community of Mount Athos. Because of its long history of religious importance, the well-preserved agrarian architecture within the monasteries, and the preservation of the flora and fauna around the mountain, Mount Athos was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988.
Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its long Christian presence and historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 AD during the Byzantine era. The mountain along with the respective part of the peninsula have been governed as the monastic community of Mount Athos, an autonomous region within the Hellenic Republic, ecclesiastically under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, while the remainder of the peninsula forms part of the Aristotelis municipality. Mount Athos ( / ˈ æ θ ɒ s/ Greek: Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece.
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