[ALBSA-Info] Stephanopoulos on Suli resistance anniversary

[Agron Alibali]

[03] PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC TO HONOR SOULI HEROES

The President of the Hellenic Republic Kostis Stephanopoulos is to attend commemorative events in Souli, Epirus, on Sunday, May 27, honoring the town's legendary resistance to Ottoman Turkish rule in the 19th century. 

Souli's inhabitants, the Souliotes, lived in fort-like villages in the mountains and remained independent during most of the occupation of Greece by the Ottoman Turks. They fought successfully (1790–1802) against Ali Pasha, the Turkish governor of Ioannina. 
In 1803, however, Ali Pasha massacred many of them after concluding a false truce. In what has become a historic point of reference, 63 Souli women leapt to their death from a cliff, many holding their babies in their arms, preferring to die than succumb to the Turks. 

MPA - 25 May 2001



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