[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Lelić” font_size=”36″ font_family=”” font_weight=”400″][vc_column_text]Lelic is on the northeast side of Leskovicka Visoravna and on the south side of the town of Valjevo. The land is limestone, made of secondary limestone, full of sinkholes of various shapes. The sinkholes are sunken or open, and some are filled with water and build rural lakes. If there were no sinkholes, arranged in a circle or rows, the land would be flat, and this is uneven. The most uneven is the northern and eastern part of the village. On the northern side of the village, below the limestone, porphyrites have been stripped at a considerable distance, and they appear on all the hills of this village. On the northern side of the village are these elevations: Brdo, where the village is, Prljuša, Mlađevi, Markovac, Vrana to Strmna Gora and Ječmište, and on the eastern side: Bobija, Kaluđersko Brdo and Ćelijske Strane.
There are only two springs in the village: Ljutenac pod Prljušom and Studenac pod Mlađevima. Both springs are in porphyry terrain, quite strong and rarely dry out. The springs are not able to meet all the need for water, so Lelic comes to the ranks of the waterless villages of Valjevo. The lack of water is met by bers and lake water, as well as water from cisterns (wells), of which there are 4-5 in the village. Of the running waters in this village, only Gradac, which flows through the eastern end of the village through a rocky, steep and inaccessible valley. The valley of Graz is so narrow that it can hardly be passed on foot, and its sides are so rugged that it can be said through them only in one place, and it can go down a very steep and rocky road. That is why Gradac is of no use to this village, and most of all because there is no port next to it, except for that small piece of land, near the church in Ćelije. There is not a single river or stream in the village. There are only two gorges in the village, rocky and completely steep valleys, which descend to the east of Graz.
The first is called Bosnjački Potok, and the second is Duboko. Both valleys are dry and meet at the bottom. Lands and forests. Rural estates are on sinkholes and valleys on the south and west side of the village. The core properties are sinkholes and are considered to be the best properties. The soil is lean, dry and very hollow clay, which gives birth to rainy summer even when it is well fertilized. There are no meadows or pastures in the village. The best rural estates are: Miškovića Dolina and Dolovi do Bogatića and Leskovica. Dolovi to Stublo and Sandalj and Markovac in the north of the village. Lelic is especially forested. All the heights and all the slopes of them are forested with ordinary deciduous trees, only in the village there is a little older forest, more younger. The most beautiful forests are the church and village churches in Mlađevi, Prljuša, Presadi and Vrana. All the hills on the north side of the village, if they are forested, are village property. Thus, the rural property is: Mlađevi, Ječmište, Presadi, Vrana and half of Markovac. The slopes of Graz and all the hills above it are the property of the cell church. There are family and congregation communities in Markovac and Ječmište, and those are the ones that are afforested in addition to the property and that could not be cleared.
Data on the village: According to the list of villages from the Valjevo diocese from 1735, Lelic had 9 homes. According to the harach notebooks from 1818 *. Lelic had 17 homes with 40 tax and 104 harak personalities. It is said that the first immigrant families in the village were called Lelići, hence the name of this village. The most beautiful landmark of this village is the old church in Ćelija. The whole eastern end of the village and all the rugged slopes of Graz are called cells. Below Celijski and Kaludjerski Brdo, there is a small plateau of 15 acres, and on that plateau are the church and its buildings. The church is made of stone with one dome and is of newer origin. The old church was set on fire and plundered and looted several times in the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century. It used to be a monastery, and today it is a secular church, and it has been like this since 1837. I would add to this that the monastery of Ćelija is active today, op. Milodan. Next to the church on the right side of it, right next to the west door, the duke of Podgorica, Ilija Birčanin, was buried. mostly forested, and since when a significant part has been alienated.2. In the western end of the village, on the hill Grabovac, in a private forest (prohibition), there is an old cemetery, which the people call the Hungarian Cemetery. the ban also includes some stećak tombstones, planted deep in the ground and without inscriptions.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar-page”][/vc_column][/vc_row]