# Attavyros

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This article is about the mountain. For the modern municipality, see [Attavyros (municipality)](/source/Attavyros_(municipality)).

**Attavyros** (Greek: Αττάβυρος) or **Atavyros** (Ατάβυρος) or **Atabyron** (Ancient Greek: Ἀτάβυρον)[1] is the highest mountain on the island of [Rhodes](/source/Rhodes) in the [Dodecanese](/source/Dodecanese) in [Greece](/source/Greece). It rises to a height of 1,215 m. It lies to the south of the village of [Embonas](/source/Embonas).

## Flora and Fauna

The lower slopes of the mountain are largely forested with *[Pinus brutia](/source/Pinus_brutia)* and *[Cupressus sempervirens](/source/Cupressus_sempervirens)*, as well as [maquis shrubland](/source/Maquis_shrubland).[2] They are also home to the [peony](/source/Peony) species [*Paeonia clusii* subsp. *rhodia*](/source/Paeonia_clusii), as well as [orchids](/source/Orchids).[3]

Mammals include the deer *[Dama dama](/source/Dama_dama)* and the Rhodes badger [*Meles canescens* subsp. *rhodius*](/source/Caucasian_badger).[3]

[Ant](/source/Ant) species include *[Aphaenogaster](/source/Aphaenogaster) balcanica, festae,* and *sporadis*; *[Camponotus](/source/Camponotus) aegeus, aethiops, boghossiani, gestroi, kiesenwetteri, oertzenii, lateralis* and *samius*; *[Colobopsis truncata](/source/Colobopsis_truncata)*; *[Crematogaster](/source/Crematogaster) ionia*; *[Lepisiota](/source/Lepisiota) melas*; *[Messor](/source/Messor) wasmanni*; *[Pheidole pallidula](/source/Pheidole_pallidula)*; *[Plagiolepis](/source/Plagiolepis) pallescens*; *[Temnothorax](/source/Temnothorax) antigoni* and *dessyi*[4]

### Conservation

The mountain is part of a [Natura 2000](/source/Natura_2000) special area of conservation since 2008, together with the neighbouring Mount [Akramitis](/source/Akramitis).[2] The area is considered important for breeding [raptors](/source/Raptor_(bird)) and species of open arid areas, as well as for [seabirds](/source/Seabirds).

## Mythology

In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology) [Althaemenes](/source/Althaemenes) founded an altar to [Zeus](/source/Zeus) Atabyrios (Ἀταβύριος Ζεύς) on the mountain. He was said to have chosen the site as the only point on Rhodes from which his homeland of [Crete](/source/Crete) could be seen. The remains of the sanctuary can be seen near the summit.[5]

## References

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, A141.5, Atabyron](https://topostext.org/work/241#A141.5)

1. ["N2K GR4210030 dataforms"](https://natura2000.eea.europa.eu/natura2000/SDF.aspx?site=GR4210030). *natura2000.eea.europa.eu*. Retrieved 2023-09-19.

1. Viesi, Juri (2021-03-11). ["Attavyros Mountain: the big one"](https://hikingrhodes.com/attavyros-mountain-the-big-one/). *Hiking Rhodes*. Retrieved 2023-09-19.

1. Borowiec, Lech; Wieczorek, Kamil; Salata, Sebastian (2021-10-15). ["Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece"](https://zenodo.org/record/5571270). *Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology*. **30**: 1–33. [doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5571270](https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.5571270)

1. Nigel McGilchrist. *Rhodes with Symi and Chalki*. McGilchrist's Greek Islands. pp. 227–229. ISBN 978 1 907859 05 2.

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