Dance of Zalongo Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου, Horos tou Zalongou) refers to the mass suicide of Souliote women and their children that is said to have occurred in the aftermath of the invasion of Ottoman troops on Souli on December 16, 1803.

Rather than submit to the Ottoman troops chasing them, they decided to turn towards the cliff's edge and die with their infants and children.

[1][2][3] A number of Greek theatrical dramas and a song in folk style commemorating the event are also named the Dance of Zalongo.

During the Greek War of Independence, after a long siege of the city of Naoussa by Ottoman forces, thirteen women and their children took refuge in a hill above the waterfall of the river Arapitsa, in Stoubanos.

The Ottoman forces set fire to the city, and much like the Souliote women of Zalongo, they jumped to their deaths with their children in the Arapitsa of Naoussa.

Those versions that rely on Christoforos Perraivos' 'History of Suli and Parga' depict Ali Pasha as a cruel tyrant whose acts are all done in betrayal.

Articles repeated a story about 100 women from Souli who took their lives along with their children while singing and dancing to avoid capture.

[13] French female painter Constance Blanchard painted Greek Women of Souli Running to Their Death in 1838, it was also exhibited at the Paris Salon that same year.

Στη στεριά δε ζει το ψάρι ούτ’ ανθός στην αμμουδιά Κι οι Σουλιώτισσες δεν ζούνε δίχως την ελευθεριά.

[17] An Albanian dance-song called Vallja e Zallongut ("Dance of Zalongo") was developed with lyrics that refer to the same aforementioned mass suicide, published in 1961 by Sako Zihnni:[18] Lamtumirë, o Sul, i shkretë, se po ndahemi per jetë.

Lamtumirë, ju male e fusha, na e punoi Pilo Gusha, I pabesi faqezi, s’pati turp, as perëndi.