The region has a 2000-year old tradition in the processing of resin. Archaeological ruins demonstrating this history of resin-processing are found in a neighbourhood of Puka that bears the same name. The ancient towns were destroyed by barbarian tribes that invaded the region around the 7th century A.D. In the 20th century, Puka became a garrison town and a center of Catholic education. Migjeni, the well known Albanian poet worked there in 1936-37. Today one can visit the school where he worked. The town is surrounded by a thick pine forest that covers an area of about 400 hectares.