Leskovik
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Leskovik Leskoviku |
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Coordinates: 40 ° 9 ′ N , 20 ° 36 ′ E |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Qark : | Korça | ||
| Municipality : | Kolonja | ||
| Height : | 910 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents : | 1525 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 0871 | ||
| Postal code : | 7402 | ||
Leskovik ( Albanian also Leskoviku ) is a place in the south of Albania with 1525 inhabitants (2011). The small country town is located in the municipality of Kolonja in the mountains east of the Vjosa valley at over 900 m above sea level. A. around eight kilometers north of the border with Greece . Leskovik is located at a transition between two side valleys of the Vjosa below the rock faces of Mali i Melesinit, which towers to the west .
In the Ottoman Empire Leskovik was an important regional center. A travel guide from 1932 describes it as a structurally and scenically appealing town with 2000 inhabitants. From this time there are still some pretty houses of local beys and an Orthodox church.
The establishment of the borders of the new Albanian state in 1913 deprived the town of its economic foundations, as many residents had lands across the border in Greece. In the First World War Leskovik has been badly damaged. As a result, the population decreased from 2200 inhabitants in 1923 to 1300 people in 1945. It was not until the 1960s that the population rose again to up to 2200 inhabitants in 1987. In 2011, 1525 inhabitants were counted, which resulted from rural exodus and Is attributable to emigration.
Until 2015 Leskovik was an independent municipality ( bashkia ) , which was then merged with the other municipalities of the dissolved Kolonja district.
In the past, Leskovik is believed to be on important trade routes, but is still located on the thoroughfare from Tepelena and Përmet to Erseka and Korça . The road leads from the Vjosa valley at around 350 m above sea level. A. through the imposing gorge of the Çarçova river from the north into the town. Another road to the south, which was newly renovated in 2009, is the connection to the border crossing at Tre Urat . The road to Erseka continues to climb from the end of the village and, northeast of Leskovik, reaches heights of up to 1100 m above sea level. A.
Leskovik has a small thermal spring , called Llixhat e Vromoneros , a few kilometers south of the town directly on the border river. During the communist rule, a guest house with 70 beds was available to the spa guests. In 1983, 1500 patients were recorded.
Personalities
- Vangjel Leskoviku (1906–1970), singer and clarinetist
- Gaqo Lena (* 1926), singer and clarinetist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Korçë 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo - Blue Guide . A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 .
- ^ Rudolf Sieber: Guide through Greece and Albania with a small phrase book: German – Albanian and German – Modern Greek . ILF-Verlag, Dresden (1931/32).
- ^ Leskovik.com: Galeria Leskoviku Pas Luftës së I Botërore . Archived from the original on July 21, 2009 ; Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Michael Schmidt-Neke and Örjan Söberg: Population structure . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (= Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 464-490 .
- ↑ Prime Minister Berisha: Leskovik area will have best roads in Albania and region. June 19, 2006, accessed August 29, 2012 .
- ^ Rüdiger Pier: Tourism . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (= Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 417-427 .