Leskovac is a populated place just next to Petrovac on Mlavi, which is the center of the municipality. It is limited (looking at a wider environment) with six other municipalities, with the exit of the road: Malo Crniće in the north-west, Kučevo in the north, Žagubica in the east, Despotovac (41km) in the south, Svilajnac (30km) in the southwest and Žabari on West.
Leskovac is 112 km from Belgrade, from Pozarevac 38, Zagubica 46 and from Bor 92 km. It lies in the high valley of Mlava on the right side of the river, downstream from its Gornjic gorge, at the mouth of the river Busur in Mlava and upstream. In the eastern hinterland, the Homoljske mountains are rising, while the north-west are spreading with the valleys of Mlava and tributaries. The climate is moderately continental, under the stronger influence of the climate closer to mountain Serbia.
Suburban farmland village of compact type on (141 m above sea level) to the sides of the peaks of Pržolje and Nikopolje and to the sides of the Big Stream, the right tributary of Mlava, 3 km south-west to Petrovac on Mlavi. The area of the atar is 715 ha. The name is of phytogeographical origin - in the hazelnuts that had been in the vicinity of the village before. The physiognomy is almost completely connected to Petrovac on Mlavi. Oval form. A number of country houses are located in the Mlava valley, in a place called Bara. In the village itself is Truić's hammer, around which, according to the tradition, the formation of the settlement began in the past. During the XIV century, in the area between Leskovac and the neighboring Great Lagoon, there was the village of Kovarna (Kovarna) mentioned in the prince of Lazar to the Monastery of Gornjak and in 1467, when it numbered 14 houses. The population is Serbian-Vlaška (celebrates Petkovica, St. Nicholas, St. Arrangel, St. John, Đurđić and others, the sacred spasovdan and 15 May - Poljobranija), originating from Crna Reka (Zlot, Brestovac, Valakonj, Ostrelj, Šarbanovac and others), Timočka Krajina and Vlaska. The index of demographic aging ranges from 0.6 (1961) to 1.1 (1991). Electricity gets in 1928 (mine and center of the village), asphalt road in 1960, and telephone connections in 1990, when the construction of the central water supply system (connection to the water supply system of Petrovac) was completed. She has a four-class elementary school (started working in 1928), a home of culture (1958) in dr. From 1922 to 1967, the lignite mine "Leskovac" worked. A large number of locals live in Petrovac na Mlavi and on temporary work abroad, mainly in EU countries.
Leskovac
(Lj. Jovanović, Mlava, SKA, 1903)
The position of the village
Leskovac is located on the right side of Mlava, on the sides of the mountains of Pržola and Nikopolje.
The village houses are mostly located around the Great Stream, which separates the two aforementioned hills and has water only during the rain. Only 12 houses are located in the very valley of the Mljet, which is called Bara. The Great Potok can not turn the houses of the village, because they are on the sides of the hillsides, but undermines the sides, and these rush and thus affect the house's shifting. The houses in Mlava, however, are in the rain, surrounded by bars, but Mlava is not blue.
In the village there is only one source, which does not dry out; his name is Truic Kladenac.
In addition to this there are 6 kladenaca, which dry out, one of which is called Martinov Kladenac. From this begins the Great Stream.
Besides the source, they have three wells in the village: two dwarfs and one plain, from which water is drunk. But peasants drink water from the Mlava River, especially in the winter months.
Earth and forest
The land for cultivation is mostly around the village, although there are plenty of land around the houses. The furthest place to cultivate is the Kulme, 1/2 sah. from the village away. Other areas are: Nikopolje, Pržolje, Kovarna and Ključ. The fields are mostly in Kovarna, and in other places they are located next to the fields, meadows and forests.
The forest has a little more in places: Carina and Dubrava, which are 3/4 hours away from the village, and they have them in all other places, it is only cleared.
Village type
Leskovac is a village more intense and if almost every farmer around the house has 1-3 days of the country's wings. The houses were settled around the Big Stream and this divides the village into two small: Upper Mala, right and Pržolska Mala, to the left of the stream. That end in the Mljet Valley is called Bara. The ends are not far from each other. A cross-country village passes the road leading to Gornjak and Zagubica. To the right of this is the end of Bara, and on the left are the other two small ones. Out of this mournful, two main glaciers, which go almost parallel along the stream, one through Gornje Male, and the other through Pržolska Mala.
They go to Petrovac for the church, school and mechanic. In the village there are about 100 houses with 137 tax heads. There are 12 houses in Bar, in Gornja Mali 40 and in Pržolska 48.
Cooperatives
Cooperatives are the largest: Jove Jankovic and Nikola Petrovic, which counts 15 souls. There are more cooperatives in Pržsko Mali, but in the rest. The cause of this arrangement of houses is the stream and the land on which the houses are.
Farewell, you go
Half of the peasant has a farm outside the village and the farm. The longest farm is at Kulma, 30 min. far from the village. Everybody fights in the farms, and in the winter the oldest members and one child who keeps the cattle.
Stories about the name of the village
The name came to the village, they talked, hence there was a lot of hazelnuts in this place, which they now have a little bit. The end of the Bara is called by that, where there was a bar, from which the fish were taken from, so they sat down.
Establishment of the village
Leskovac was once at the place Medvedjak, in the attic of Petrovac. 5-6 houses of Trujic and Kostandinovic lived there. As the Turks often went over there and bored them, this place grew and Trujici and Koststandinovići came to a place of plantation, so Trujići was formed at Kladenac, and Kostandinovići to the right of Veliki Potok and thus established today's village. Other families came from different parts of the country, and from that time, from 2 houses, the village with 100 houses became for 150 years. Immediately for these two families came the families of Dulkani, Zdronci and Grujići, and so the village grew to 7 houses. Other families came for these. From where some families came from, you can see from the next review, but it is not known why they moved from their old town.
In the village these families:
Ttrujići (10) in Pržolje Mali around Kladenac, came from Oštrelje in Black River, they were first in Medveđak, so they moved here. Slave Petkovic,
Kostandinovići (17) in Gornja and Pržola Mali, from Kosiak in Krajina. And they first moved to Medveđak, and after they moved here. Slave Sv. Arrange.
Dulkanji (17) in Gornja and Pržola Mali, came from Brestovac in Crna Reka, and they are from the Krajina. Slave Petkovic.
Zdronci (6) in the middle of the village and Pržolje Mali, from Valakonje in Black River. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
Grujići (6) in Pržolje Mali and Barama, from Zlota in Crna Reka. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
Kojići (4) in Barama, from Zlota in Crna Reka. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
The Maillons (4) in Bar and Upper Mali, came from Zlota in Crna Reka. Slave Sv. Jovana.
Caronji (3) in Upper Mali, immigrants from Prljita, and they are of antiquity from Vlaska. Slave Petkovic.
Bundžetonji (3) in Gornja Mali and Barama, from Šarbanovac in Crna Reka. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
Serafinešće (6) in Pržola Mali and Barama, from Zlota in Black River. Slave Petkovic.
Kurići (6) in Pržolje Mali and Barama, came from Zlota in Crna Reka. Slave Sv. Jovana.
Blagojonji (3) at the end of the village in Velika Potok, came from Prljita, and in Prljat they moved from Vlaška. Slave Djurdjic.
Novakonji (3) in Pržola and Upper Mali, from Zlota in Black River. Slave Petkovic.
Trailonji (6) in Pržola and Upper Mali, from Valakonje in Black River. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
Popazonji (4) in Gornja and Pržola Mali, also from Valakonje in Black River. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
Perici (2) left by the road, immigrants from Zdrel. Slave Sv. Nikolu.
From this it can be seen that the village grew more and more by growing rather than immigrating, since older families have more houses.
The first inhabitants had to shrink the forest so that they could settle down. The last came a few years ago, Perici from Zdrel, and bought the land here and settled here. The layout of the houses is so much related to the old age that the oldest families took the best places around the source, and the others are worse, but these are not at the same time in the middle of the village.
The village is a sacred Little Spasovdan.
The inhabitants of this village differ from the immediate surroundings after the speech, as everyone almost speaks volishki, and in the suit almost equated with the environment.
Antiques, landscapes, cemeteries, etc.
There is only one village in the attire of this village, and it is in Medvedjak, where Petrovac has now developed.
There was an old cemetery on Pržolje, but it is not known who it is. Now he's gone. Also, Kovarna has traces from the old cemetery.
The village is a cemetery with the Petrovac on the hill Lešje.
The interest of the population.
Peasants are interested in farming and cattle breeding, and they are also involved in the cultivation of fruits, especially plums.
Only SeraFinešće, besides that they are engaged in agriculture, they are also dunjers and until almost they went to work in Vlastak.
(The age of the village was carried out this way: Golub Stanković is 70 years old and says his grandfather was brought here from 5 years old from Medveđak, where again, as they were told, the paraded came from Oštrelje in Crna Reka. He did not remember Dede because he died two years before he was born. His father, however, told him that his grandfather lived for 60-70 years. According to this, this place is about 150 years old.)
Ljubomir Jovanovic, Mlava, Serbian Royal Academy, 1903
