Avren Municipality

Avren Municipality
Община Аврен
Municipality
Avren Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Avren Municipality within Bulgaria and Varna Province.
Coordinates: 43°5′N 27°44′E / 43.083°N 27.733°E / 43.083; 27.733
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Varna
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Avren
Area
 • Total
380 km2 (150 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
9,089
 • Density24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Avren Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Аврен) is a seaside municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre – the village of Avren.

Its area spreads from Provadiya Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the south the municipality is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 380 km2 (150 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 9,089 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements

Avren Municipality includes the following 17 places, all of them are villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Avren Аврен 750
Benkovski Бенковски 445
Bliznatsi Близнаци 842
Bolyartsi Болярци 192
Dobri Dol Добри дол 34
Dabravino Дъбравино 1,460
Kazashka Reka Казашка река 326
Kitka Китка 247
Krusha Круша 113
Priseltsi Приселци 849
Ravna Gora Равна гора 236
Sadovo Садово 351
Sindel Синдел 1,259
Tsarevtsi Царевци 841
Trastikovo Тръстиково 657
Yunak Юнак 145
Zdravets Здравец 342
Total 9,089

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Avren Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,054 9,676 8,817 8,714 9,074 9,064 9,089 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Avren Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 62.3%
Catholicism
 
 0.4%
Protestantism
 
 0.6%
Islam
 
 16.6%
No religion
 
 6.6%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 13.5%

A majority of the population of Avren Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 62.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. There is a relatively large Muslim minority and a large part did not answer.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.