Konitsa
Konitsa is a town in Epirus, Greece, near the Albanian border.
It lies in a shape like an amphi-theatre on a mountain slope of the Pindos mountain range, overlooking the valley where the two rivers Aoos and Voidomatis meet. The valley is used for farming.
Konitsa is a regional centre for many small Pindos villages, and there are shops, schools and a hospital. It is a good starting point for tourists who want to explore the Pindos mountains, or who want to go rafting in the river Aoos or parapenting.
It is built on the slope of Trapezitsa mountain in 630 m altitude. There are many assumptions about the origin of its name. The most dominant ones are the stance of the historian P. Aravantinos who claims that it comes from the name of the ancient city Knossos that gradually became Konitsa, as well as the stance that it comes from the Slavic word Konitza, which means “horse bazaar”.
