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LESKOVATS (LESKOVATZ or LESKOvAC)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LESKOVATS (LESKOVATZ or LESKOvAC) , a See also:town in See also:Servia, between See also:Nish and See also:Vranya, on the railway See also:line from Nish to See also:Salonica. Pop. (1901) 13,707. It is the headquarters of the Servian See also:hemp See also:industry, the extensive See also:plain in which the town lies growing the best See also:flax and hemp in all the See also:Balkan See also:peninsula. The plain is not only the most fertile portion of Servia, but also the best cultivated. Besides flax and hemp, excellent See also:tobacco is grown. Five valleys converge on the plain from different directions, and the inhabitants of the villages in these valleys are all occupied in growing flax and hemp, which they send to Leskovats to be stored or manufactured into See also:ropes. After See also:Belgrade and Nish, Leskovats is the most prosperous town in Servia.

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