Lešok

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.