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[1]
Geography
Papikio is located in Greece
Papikio
Papikio
CountryGreece

Papikio (Greek: Παπίκιο) is a mountain in Rhodope, Greece. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period.[2][3] 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.[4]

References

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  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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