Lešok | |
Native Name: | Лешок Leshkë |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Polog |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Tearce |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 440 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 42.062°N 21.0312°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Website: | . |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | TE |
Lešok (Macedonian: Лешок, Albanian: Leshkë[1]) is a village in the municipality of Tearce, North Macedonia.
According to a 1467-68 Ottoman defter, the inhabitants of Lešok exhibited mostly Albanian and mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponymy the latter usually consisting of a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name (Radič, son of Gjin Arbanasi, Radivoj, son of Doda), while a minority carried traditional Slavic anthroponymy. The settlement had two Orthodox Albanian priests who served in the Slavic-speaking church.[2]
This village is well known for its monastery, where operated the Macedonian Bulgarian intellectual Kiril Pejcinović.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 540 Bulgarian Exarchists.[3]
As of the 2021 census, Lešok had 696 residents with the following ethnic composition:[4]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 440 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]