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Russia Greece Ottoman Russian Orthodox Monastery at Mount Athos Check for 250 Turkish Lire Constantinople (Istanbul) 1901 - # 11 Payment order (check). drawn in Costantinople, text is in Russian; Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Hellenic Republic, namely the monastic community of Mount Athos under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople VF Россия Греция Османская Империя - Русский православный монастырь на горе Афон - Чек на 250 турецких лир Константинополь (Стамбул) 1901 г.