Leskovac is a suburban farmland village of compact type on (141 m above sea level) on the sides of the peaks of Pržolje and Nikopolje and the sides of the Big Stream, the right tributary of Mlava, 3 km south-west to Petrovac on Mlava. 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.
