Levač (Serbian Cyrillic: Левач) is a historical region in central Serbia. It is located between Juhor mountain on east and Gledićke planine on west.1 It includes settlements today part of the Rekovac municipality. In the Middle Ages it was a county with different territory. The area is around 366 km2. Levač comprises 32 villages and one town called Rekovac:
History
Middle Ages
The župa ("county") of Levač is mentioned for the first time in the Hilandar charter (1198). Despot Stefan Lazarević (r. 1389–1427) donated the village of Jabučje "in Levač" to the nun Jefimija in 1405. In the 1411 charter to Hilandar, the village of Bačina "in Levač" was donated to the Hilandar monastery.
Sources
Sources
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- Obradović, Mirjana. "Toponimija Levča." Универзитет у Крагујевцу (2024).
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