ABSTRACT
Three Byzantine monastic centres in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace give a picture of Byzantine monasticism outside Mt Athos.
Between 1985 and 1990 I excavated a large three-aisled early Christian basilica with a transept at Synaxis, east of Maroneia.1 The east end is of marble taken from older Roman buildings of the Antonine period (AD 96-192). The basilica collapsed in the late sixth or early seventh century.
