Pashko Vasa [SEP] place of death
Vaso Pasha
Vaso Pasha (30 June 1825, Shkodër, Albania, Ottoman Empire – 29 June 1892, Beirut, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire), also known as Pashko Vasa, Wasa Pasha or Vaso Pashë Shkodrani, was an Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening, and Governor of Lebanon from 1882 until his death.
Biography.
Vaso Pasha was from Shkodër and a Catholic Albanian who held high positions within the Ottoman Empire.
Biography Secretary in the British Consulate.
From 1842 to 1847
discrediting the Gjonmarkaj clan who, in cahoots with the powerful abbots of Mirdita, held sway in the Shkodra region. It is for this reason perhaps that Pashko Vasa published the novel under the pseudonym Albanus Albano. The work is not known to have had any particular echo in the French press of the period.
Though most of Pashko Vasa's publications were in French and Italian, there is one poem, the most influential and perhaps the most popular ever written in Albanian, which has ensured him his deserved place in Albanian