The Monastery of Great Lavra is the first monastery built on Mount Athos, on the Athos peninsula in geographical Macedonia, northeastern Greece. It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of 160 metres (170 yd). The founding of the monastery in AD 963 by Athanasius the Athonite marks the beginning of the organized monastic life at Mount Athos.
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- Wikipedia (el) – Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας (el.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia (en) – Great Lavra (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia (bg) – Велика лавра (bg.wikipedia.org)
- Wikidata – Q546516 (wikidata.org)
- Wikimedia Commons – Great Lavra monastery (commons.wikimedia.org)
- OpenStreetMap – node 303637084 (openstreetmap.org)
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