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Leskovik () is a town in Korçë County, in southeastern Albania. Historically, until 2015, it was a municipality, after which it became a municipal unit of Kolonjë. Leskovik is located from Melesin mountain. The town is located close to the Greek–Albanian border. The population as of the 2023 census is 399.

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Place details

Locality
Leskovik
Region
Shqipëria Jugore
Country
Shqipëria
Population
939
Timezone
Europe/Tirane

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Key facts

Albanian settlement.name
Leskovik
Albanian settlement.type
town
Albanian settlement.image_skyline
Leskovik.jpg
Albanian settlement.image_caption
Leskovik, with the Melesini Mountain in the background
Albanian settlement.county
Korçë
Albanian settlement.municipality
Kolonjë
Albanian settlement.elevation
913
Albanian settlement.population as of
2023
Albanian settlement.area_unit
3.64
Albanian settlement.population unit
939
Albanian settlement.postal code
7402
Albanian settlement.area code
(0)871

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
city
Country
Albania
Population
2655
Elevation
909
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Image
Leskovik.jpg
Licence plate code
ER
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Commons category
Leskovik
postal code
7402
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • World War II
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Leskovik () is a town in Korçë County, in southeastern Albania. Historically, until 2015, it was a municipality, after which it became a municipal unit of Kolonjë. Leskovik is located from Melesin mountain. The town is located close to the Greek–Albanian border. The population as of the 2023 census is 399.

==Name== The name comes from the Slavic word ("hazel" or "hazel river"), together with the suffix ik(ë). The name of the town was shown as Lexovico in an 1821 map by the French writer and traveller François Pouqueville, and as Leskovik in an Ottoman document produced in 1851.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leskovik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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