Ljanik ( sr-cyr, Љаник) 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 ...

located in the municipality of

Preševo Preševo ( sr-cyrl, Прешево; sq, Preshevë, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. It is the southernmost town in Central Serbia and largest in the geographical region of Preševo Valley. Preševo ...

, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 29 people, all ethnic

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their ...

. The toponym is derived from ''ljanik'', a variant of the word ''pčelinjak'' ("

apiary An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. Apiaries come in many sizes and can be rural or urban depending on the honey production operation. Furthermore, an apiary may refer to a hobbyist's hives o ...

"). The village was known for its

beehive A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus ''Apis'' live and raise their young. Though the word ''beehive'' is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature ...

s and hence got its name.Момчило Златановић: Топомија насеља у средњем сливу Пчиње (пет насеља), Врањски гласник XXI, Врање 1988, стр. 165. There are two neighbourhoods (''mahale''), called Selo and Rosulja. It is located at the slopes of the Rujan mountain. The village is one out of four with Serb majority in the

municipality, along with Svinjište, Slavujevac and Cakanovac; the rest having an Albanian majority.

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* Populated places in Pčinja District Preševo North Macedonia–Serbia border {{PčinjaRS-geo-stub