Profitis Iliad

Icon of the prophet Elijah ( Iliad ) in a chapel on Crete

Profitis Ilias ( neugr. Προφήτης Ηλίας, 'Prophet Elijah ') are usually the names of the highest mountain peaks on the Greek islands ; therefore you can find an elevation on almost every island that is named in this way. But there are also numerous peaks with this name on the Greek mainland, 69 of them alone with a height of over 1000 meters.

Examples:

• Profitis Ilias on the island of Rhodes (798 m)
• Profitis Ilias (also: Marpessa ( outdated )and Agii Pantes ) on the island of Paros (771 m)
• Profitis Iliad on Milos Island
• Profitis Ilias (also: Hagios Ilias ) in the Taygetos Mountains on the Peloponnese (2407 m; highest mountain on the peninsula)
• Profitis Iliad over the Macedonian capital Thessaloniki

Name origin

In the Old Testament , Mount Horeb was the place of refuge for the prophet Elias from persecution by Jezebel , the wife of the Israelite king Ahab (9th century BC ). From there Profitis Ilias was borrowed as the name for a mountain peak.

See also

Greek Orthodox mountain church of the Prophet Elias in Loutrochori

• Chora (central place)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bar chart: Location and height of all Greek mountain peaks> 1000 m with the name Profitis Ilias ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ^ Monika I. Baumgartner: Greek Islands. In: Baedeker's Allianz travel guide . 3rd edition, Karl Baedeker Verlag , Stuttgart / Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3875042174 , p. 169 ( paperback )
3. ↑ In the Peloponnese alone there are 28 peaks> 1000 m with the name Profitis Ilias and in Taygetos a second peak with this name; see. Bar chart (upper footnote)