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.
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.
