The Zalongo[1] or Mount Zalongo is a small bare mountain of Greece with an altitude of 462 meters.[2] It is located north of Preveza, above the village of Kamarina, and belongs to the mountain range of the Kasopaian mountains of Epirus. The heavily grazed area includes a limited forest zone, steep cliffs and arable land. The area below the historical monument has been reforested with trachea pines (Pinus brutia) while scattered individuals of mossy oak also grow (Quercus pubescens) cypress tree (Cupressus sempervirens) and macroscale oak (Quercus macrolepis). Regarding the herbaceous flora, two endemic species of Greece have been mentioned (Galium advenum) and the Balkan (Saxifraga rotundifolia) flora respectively.[3]
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The name of the mountain was associated with the pre-revolutionary period of 1821 and in particular with the legendary ""Dance of Zalongo " when a group of Souliotisses and Souliots with their children decided to die free rather than fall into the hands of the Turco-Albanian.[4] At the western end of the Zalongou mountain plateau, the largest statue in Greece was erected during 1950–1961, with the title Monument of Zalongo, designed by the sculptor George Zongolopoulos.[5]
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- Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Δρανδάκη, τ.ΙΑ΄, σ.901.
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- ^ Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Νέα Δομή. Αθήνα: Τεγόπουλος - Μανιατέας. 1996. p. 41, τομ. 13.
- ^ "Όρη Ζαλόγγου – Πίνδος Περιβαλλοντική" (in Greek). Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "Όρη Ζαλόγγου". old.ntua.gr. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ Cook, Bernard A. (2006). Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851097708. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ Δ.Κοντελεντζίδου, Γιώργος Ζογγολόπουλος. Σύγχρονοι Έλληνες εικαστικοί (2009) 37-39.