Lelić is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
of
Valjevo
Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the administrative area of Valjevo had 90,312 inhabitants, 59,073 of whom were urban dwel ...
,
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...
. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 568 people.
[Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ] Saint Nikolai Velimirovich of Ohrid and Žiča of the
Serbian Orthodox Church is buried there, next to his parents and nephew.
Several historical Orthodox Christian monasteries are located near Lelić.
Gallery
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 1.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 16.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 19.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 20.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 3.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
File:Lelic - opština Valjevo - zapadna Srbija - panorama 5.jpg, Lelic - Panorama
Notable people
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Nikolaj Velimirović
Nikolaj Velimirović (Serbian Cyrillic: Николај Велимировић; – ) was bishop of the eparchies of Ohrid and Žiča (1920–1956) in the Serbian Orthodox Church. An influential theological writer and a highly gifted ora ...
, Serbian Orthodox Bishop
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Artemije Radosavljević
Artemije Radosavljević ( sr-Cyrl, Артемије Радосављевић; 15 January 193521 November 2020) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop who served as the head of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren from 1991 until his removal in 2010. He was r ...
, Serbian Orthodox Bishop
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Danial Jahić
Danial Jahić ( sr-Cyrl, Даниал Јахић; 1 July 1979 – 19 January 2021) was a Serbian long jumper. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was national indoor record holder for 20 years.
Career
He finished fifth at the 1998 Worl ...
, Serbian long jumper
References
External links
Populated places in Kolubara District
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