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Yesterday we went on our last big trip, here in Greece, which was centered around a cruise close to the shorelines of Mount Athos. It was interesting.
I'm only going to mention a few things I found out during the trip which I thought were more captivating.
First of all, Mount Athos is a state within a state, self-governed and independent from the Greek political power.
It's even got its own time zone (offset from GMT by a variable number of minutes), which together with the use of the Julian calendar is enough to make it seem like something out of Gulliver's Travels.
Mount Athos (the state) isn't actually just the mountain but more like the entire 3rd "finger" of the Halkidiki peninsla.
Romanian leaders from the middle ages (Ex: Stefan cel Mare, Vlad Tepes, Alexandru Lapusneanu) contributed large sums of money and support to the construction and reconstruction of the Athos monasteries.
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