Souli Municipality

Also known as Municipality of Souli

Souli () is a municipality in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town of Paramythia.

Key facts

Greek Dimos.name: Souli
Greek Dimos.name_local: Σούλι
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Souliou.png
Greek Dimos.periph: Epirus
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Thesprotia
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 8759
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 502.8
Greek Dimos.pop_municunit: 349
Greek Dimos.area_municunit: 93.2
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.seat: Paramythia

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Souli () is a municipality in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town of Paramythia.

==Name and history== The origin of the name Souli is uncertain. In the earliest historical text about Souli, written by Christoforos Perraivos in 1803, an oral tradition of the locals is recorded. According to this, the first settlers of Souli were shepherds who came from a village called Gardiki trying to avoid the Ottoman oppression. A certain Muslim ("Turk" in the text) named Soulis attempted to expel the early Souliotes from there but the latter resisted with arms. In the battle they killed Soulis and since then the area was named Souli. However, Fourikis (1934) goes as far as proposing that Perraivos invented this explanation himself. The most commonly accepted theory in contemporary historiography, as suggested by Fourikis (1934), states that Souli derives from the Albanian term sul, which means "mountain peak", while it may also be interpreted as "watchpost, lookout, mountain summit".