Faik Bey Konica was an important figure in Albanian language and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. As the Albanian minister to Washington, D.C., his literary review Albania became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad. Faik Konica wrote little in the way of literature, but he was an influential stylist, critic, publicist and political figure in Albanian culture.
Konica in 1931
A young Faik Konica in national Albanian dress, 1918
Konica depicted on an Albanian postal stamp
Konitsa is a town of Ioannina in Epirus, Greece. It is located north of the capital Ioannina and near the Albanian border. Konitsa lies northeast of a group of villages known as the Zagorochoria. The town was built amphitheatrically-shaped on a mountain slope of the Pindos mountain range from where it overlooks the valley where the river Aoos meets the river Voidomatis.
View of Konitsa.
Ottoman era bridge in Konitsa, built 1870
Old mansion belonging to Ali Pasha's mother Hamko
Ruins of an Ottoman mosque in Konitsa