Shiko fotografinë 20059
Oil painting by Eugene Delacroix 1824 - 1825;
Louvre Museum, Paris/France.
SOULIOTES
The Souliotes (or Souliots, Suliots; Greek: Σουλιώτες) were the inhabitants of Souli, a historic mountain settlement 73 km southeast of Igoumenitsa in Thesprotia and its surrounding areas in the mountains of Mourgana in Epirus in northwestern (Greece today). They established an autonomous association of villages resisting Ottoman rule in the 17th and 18th centuries. Souliotes became famous across Greece for their successful resistance against the local Ottoman governor Ali Pasha. After their defeat in 1803, the Souliotes were forced to move to other parts of Greece, and many of them later became active in the Greek War of Independence starting in 1821, under leaders such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas.
Etymology:
Modern dictionaries derive "Souli" from Albanian suli, meaning mountain summit. In the nineteenth century, the poet Andreas Kalvos (1792 - 1869) had linked the name to the Selloi, the ancient priests of Zeus at the sanctuary of Dodona. Kalvos used this association in his ode "Εις Σούλι" ('To Souli') written in honor of the Souliotes' heroic role in the struggle for Greek independence.
Oil painting by Eugene Delacroix 1824 - 1825;
Louvre Museum, Paris/France.
SOULIOTES
The Souliotes (or Souliots, Suliots; Greek: Σουλιώτες) were the inhabitants of Souli, a historic mountain settlement 73 km southeast of Igoumenitsa in Thesprotia and its surrounding areas in the mountains of Mourgana in Epirus in northwestern (Greece today). They established an autonomous association of villages resisting Ottoman rule in the 17th and 18th centuries. Souliotes became famous across Greece for their successful resistance against the local Ottoman governor Ali Pasha. After their defeat in 1803, the Souliotes were forced to move to other parts of Greece, and many of them later became active in the Greek War of Independence starting in 1821, under leaders such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas.
Etymology:
Modern dictionaries derive "Souli" from Albanian suli, meaning mountain summit. In the nineteenth century, the poet Andreas Kalvos (1792 - 1869) had linked the name to the Selloi, the ancient priests of Zeus at the sanctuary of Dodona. Kalvos used this association in his ode "Εις Σούλι" ('To Souli') written in honor of the Souliotes' heroic role in the struggle for Greek independence.