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edit   Welcome to a part of the greater Hellenic series edit   Introduction Pendeli is a wide mountainous region demarcating the athenian, the mesogean and the marathonian plain in the northeastern part of the Attica Periphery in Greece. During the years of ancient Greece, it was the seat of a highland town called Pendeli, little of which is now known. The mountain was cited in ancient scripts as "Vrilissos", due to the great white marbles and stones mined out of it and used for the construction of great greek monuments such as the Parthenon. For the deme it hosted, the mountain was often called mountain Pendelikon (the mountain of the Pendelic town), or simply Pendeli and the marbles "pendelikon marmaron". During the medieval times, the bishop of Evripos, Agios Timotheos decided to build a great monastery in honour of Panagia on the hills of the mountain. After the great monastery was completed, the bishop decided to seek financial self-governance, in order for it to flourish. That resulted in large parts of the mountain being under the use and governance of the monastery, with great pieces of land claimed among Agios Timotheos, Agia Philothei and Agios Ierakas, while the mountain begun to host anchoretes all over its caves and hills. At that time, due to the wide spread of asceticism, the mountain was called mountain Amonon (Όρος Αμώνων), meaning "mountain of the ascetics". After the turkish occupation, many sarakatsanoi sheperds from Sterea Ellada and islanders later that come to work at the mines that are opened, are the first permanent residents of the region. During the recent years of the hellenic history, Pendeli attracted many athenians, seeking a better place to reside in, near the forests and the good climate, while the city of Athens was rapidly developed. The central village around the monastery developed into a town, subdivided afterwards into two settlements parted by tha great stream of Vrilissos, the Pendeli and Nea Pendeli, whereas the southern urban town was named after the mountain's ancient name, Vrilissia. Many athenian suburbs and towns begun to blossom around the mountain, which are known for their natural beauty, such as Ekali, Dionyssos, Drosia, Vrilissia, Gerakas, Pikermi and other. Pendeli... edit   Selected article Portal:Pendeli/Selected article/Week 47, 2011 edit   Selected picture Portal:Pendeli/Selected picture/November, 2011 edit   Did You Know? ...that the Pendeliko hosted workers from all over the greek islands at its marble workshops that flourished due to the world known marble of Penteli? ...that the main pit used for the mables' storage at the foot of the Patima hill was transformed into the local theatre of Vrilissia named after the famous greek actress Aliki Vougiouklaki that was born at the neighbouring Municipality of Maroussi? ...that the city was connected in the mid 2000s with all the metro, railway lines, highways and other means of transport, facilitating the transit from the suburbs to the mesogea and the athenian plain in less than 25 minutes? ...that the town of Pikermi is a worldwide known place as the "Akropolis of Paleontology" due to the numerous fossils found of wild fauna belonging to the late Miocene at the southern hills of Pendeliko? edit   Selected quotes Portal:Pendeli/Selected quote/Week 47, 2011 edit   WikiProjects WikiProject Greece WikiProject Attica edit   Things you can do Please visit the Attica Wikipedians' notice board and help to write new Pendeli-related articles, and expand and improve existing ones. Visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Pendeli/Assessment, and help out by assessing unrated pendelic articles. Add the Project Banner to Pendelic articles around Wikipedia. Participate in WikiProject Pendeli's Peer Review, including responding to PR requests and nominating Pendelic articles. Help nominate and select new content for the Pendeli portal. edit   Related portals Greece European Union Europe edit   Associated Wikimedia Pendeli on Wikibooks  Pendeli on Wikimedia Commons Pendeli on Wikinews  Pendeli on Wikiquote  Pendeli on Wikisource  Pendeli on Wikiversity  Pendeli on Wiktionary  Manuals and books Images and media News Quotations Texts Learning resources Definitions What are portals? · List of portals · Featured portals Purge server cache