Papikio () is a mountain in Rhodope, Greece. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period.Talbot, Alice-Mary. "Les saintes montagnes à Byzance". Kaplan, Michel. Le sacré et son inscription dans l’espace à Byzance et en Occident: Études comparées. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2001. (pp. 263-275). Today, Byzantine monastery ruins can be found on the mountain.
In Bulgarian, Papikio is known as Orlitsa (). In Turkish, it is known as Kartal Dağı. It is the highest point of the Eastern Rhodopes as well as the highest summit of the Komotini Ridge (), which is shared by Bulgaria and Greece. The southernmost point of Bulgaria, Veykata (1463 m; ) is located a few kilometres to the north of Papikio.
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