Athos Holy Mount

Ottoman Documents	14.12 Petition of the monks of Mount Athos to the Sultan Undated Protaton Paper
	Every year, without fail, the Athonite monks pay their taxes to the public treasury. They also pay five hundred piastres annually to the agent of the Bostancis, or Palace Guard, based in Thessaloniki, as well as various other incidental sums to an annual total of four to five hundred aspers. The monasteries are also taxed, paying a total of two thousand purses of aspers annually. Despite all this, they are under constant pressure to pay more, although such an intolerable burden would lead to their dissolution. They therefore petition the Sultan to prohibit the exaction of taxes other than those lawfully prescribed. The petition is ratified on the second sheet with the seals of the twenty Athonite monasteries.
	Bibliography: Unpublished.
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