A monk or resident of Mount Athos, the autonomous monastic community in Greece.
From Mount Athos (Greek Athos, meaning 'not scalable' or referring to the mountain itself) plus -ite (suffix indicating a person from a place or group). Athonite preserves the specific identity of these monks.
Mount Athos is literally its own country within Greece—a place where monks have lived continuously for over 1,000 years with their own governance, and the word 'Athonite' marks them as part of this unique, isolated monastic tradition unlike any other.
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