Boztepe or Mount Minthrion is a hill near

Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

, in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. It is located 3 kilometers southeast of the city center of

. The Değirmendere Valley lies to the east of Boztepe. The Kaymaklı quarter occupies most of the Boztepe hill. The area has been religiously significant since ancient times. There are four sacred fountains on Bozetepe. *That of Saint John the Sanctifier is near the summit. On the site is a mosque that was formerly a nineteenth-century church. The church in turn may have replaced a sanctuary to

Mithras Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman Empire, Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian peoples, Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (''yazata'') Mit ...

, which may have been the origin of the name ''Minthrion''. *That of Kaymaklı Monastery is known as the milk fountain. *The Skylolimne is now a mostly-dry lake. *The Dragon's fountain (Δράκοντπήάσον) is near Hoşoğlan village.Bryer, p. 207 According to John Lazaropoulos' ''Logos'' on St. Eugenios of Trebizond, Alexios II of Trebizond killed a dragon at the site. *The Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery

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Map of Trabzon

Kaymaklı Monastery info at www.trabzon.gov.tr
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