Kyra Panagia ( el, Κυρά Παναγιά ) is a

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in the

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. It is administratively part of the municipality of

Alonnisos Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos i ...

in the Sporades regional unit. The island is also known by the name of Pelagos and rarely Pelagonisi. . A bay in the south west of the island is named Agios Petros. Kyra Panagia has belonged to the Athonite monastery of

Megisti Lavra The Monastery of Great Lavra ( el, Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας) is the first monastery built on Mount Athos. It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of . The founding of the monastery in AD 963 by Athanasi ...

since it was granted the island by the Byzantine emperor

Nikephoros II Phokas Nikephoros II Phokas (; – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. His career, not uniformly successful in matters of statecraft or of war, nonetheless included brilliant military exploits whi ...

in 963. There is a monastery renovated in 2017 after 8 years of work and inhabited by a single monk, on the east coast of the island. , the resident population of the island was 2. Kyra Panagia is in Zone B of the

Alonnisos Marine Park The National Marine Park of Alonnisos Northern Sporades ( el, Εθνικό Θαλάσσιο Πάρκο Αλοννήσου Βορείων Σποράδων, ΕΘΠΑΒΣ) was founded by Presidential Decree on May 16, 1992. It was the first of its ki ...

Nearest islands and islets

Its nearest islands and islets are

Gioura Gioura ( el, Γιούρα), sometimes romanized as Youra, is a Greek island and abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Northern Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos. The island name comes from the ancien ...

to the northeast and the main island of

to the southwest.

References

External links

Kyra Panagia (Pelagos) on GTP Travel Pages

Official website of Municipality of Aloníssos
Landforms of the Sporades Islands of Thessaly {{Thessaly-geo-stub