But the name "Mount Nif", deriving from "Nymphaion", the name of the region during the Byzantine period when it was an important and imperial center especially at the time of the Nicaean Empire, is the more common appellation in Turkey as well.
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It was one of the nineteen mountains which carried the name Olympus in ancient times.
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The monastery must have been named "Amanariotissa", in other words "Mary of Amanara", and was founded on the western slopes or foothills facing Smyrna of the Mount Nif, which itself was one of the mountains called Olympus in ancient times, whence the name of the principal monastery, Lembos.