The Dance of Zalongo, the mass suicide of Souliote women and children, is one of the most infamous events in modern Greek history. The Souliotes were an Eastern Orthodox community of the area of Souli, in Epirus, known for their military prowess, their resistance to the local Ottoman Albanian ruler Ali Pasha, and their contribution…
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