Leka (name)
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Leka is an Albanian male name and surname. In the Balkans, it has spread in the forms Lecca (Romanian), Lekkas (Greek), Lekić (Serbo-Croatian).
As toponym
- Lekaj is a village and a former municipality situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County.
- Lekaj (Hysgjokaj) is a village in the commune of Hysgjokaj in the district of Lushnja in Albania .
- Lekas is a village in Dardhas commune in Pogradec district in Albania .
- Lekas another village in Lekas commune in Korça district in Albania
- Λέκα Σάμου is a village of Samos, built at the northeastern foot of Mount Kerkis, near the town of Karlovasi, which might be derived from Albanian[1]
- Lekël is a village in Gjirokastër County
Given name
- Leka (Paulician leader) a Byzantine Paulician, possibly of Albanian birth[2]
- Lekë Dukagjini Albanian Nobleman who canonized the doke
- Lekë Matrënga 1567 – 6 May 1619) was an Arbëresh writer and Catholic priest of Byzantine rite in the Albanian community of Sicily.
- Leca of Cătun was probably a Wallachian political figure of Albanian origin, prominent under Princes Michael the Brave, Radu Șerban, and Radu Mihnea.
- Lekë Zaharia an Arbëresh writer.
- Lekë Dushmani one of the founders of League of Lezhë
- Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (born 1939) only son of King Zog I and Queen Geraldine of Albania.
- Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (born 1982) the claimant to the defunct throne of Albania and the head of the House of Zogu.
- Leka Bungo is an Albanian director, actor, and screenwriter. born 1944.
- Leka Gjiknuri (1942 -1998) born in Kudhës, Himara, was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in New York and Paris
- Leka Ndoja (born in Tirana, 1962) is a researcher of literature and history and an Albanian translator.