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Mountain in Rhodope, Greece
Papikio
Highest point
Elevation1,483 m (4,865 ft)
Coordinates41°13′11″N 25°18′25″E / 41.2195841°N 25.3068607°E / 41.2195841; 25.3068607
Geography
Papikio is located in GreecePapikioPapikioRhodope
CountryGreece

Papikio (Greek: Παπίκιο) is a mountain in Rhodope, Greece. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period. Today, Byzantine monastery ruins can be found on the mountain.

In Bulgarian, Papikio is known as Orlitsa (Bulgarian: Орлица). In Turkish, it is known as Kartal Dağı. It is the highest point of the Eastern Rhodopes as well as the highest summit of the Komotini Ridge (Bulgarian: Гюмюрджински снежник, romanized: Gyumyurdzhinski Snezhnik), which is shared by Bulgaria and Greece. The southernmost point of Bulgaria, Veykata (1463 m; Bulgarian: Вейката) is located a few kilometres to the north of Papikio.

References

  1. "Node: ‪Παπίκιο όρος / Орлицата‬ (26864186)". OpenStreetMap. 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
  2. Della Dora, Veronica (2016). Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium. Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-48838-6. OCLC 938434170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Talbot, Alice-Mary. "Les saintes montagnes à Byzance". Kaplan, Michel. Le sacré et son inscription dans l’espace à Byzance et en Occident: Études comparées. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2001. (pp. 263-275).
  4. "Знаете ли коя е най-южната точка на България?". Trafficnews. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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