Lovech Municipality

Lovech Municipality Община Ловеч
Municipality
Lovech Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°8′N 24°44′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Lovech
Area
• Total	930.8 km^2 (359.4 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	53,578
• Density	58/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Lovech Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ловеч) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Lovech which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality is 930.8 km^2 (359.4 sq mi) with a population of 53,578 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The area is known with the covered bridge by Kolyu Ficheto, in the main town, and the spectacular Devetaki cave near to the homonymous village.

Settlements

Lovech Municipality within Lovech Province

Lovech

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Apriltsi

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Troyan

•

Teteven

•

Lukovit

•

Ugarchin

•

Letnitsa

•

Yablanitsa

Lovech Municipality includes the following 35 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Lovech	Ловеч	38,579
Ablanitsa	Абланица	228
Aleksandrovo	Александрово	2,074
Bahovitsa	Баховица	1,058
Brestovo	Брестово	212
Balgarene	Българене	242
Chavdartsi	Чавдарци	388
Devetaki	Деветаки	243
Doyrentsi	Дойренци	1,250
Drenov	Дренов	429
Dabrava	Дъбрава	38
Goran	Горан	373
Gorno Pavlikene	Горно Павликене	242
Gostinya	Гостиня	186
Hlevene	Хлевене	304
Izvorche	Изворче	54
Kazachevo	Казачево	324
Kakrina	Къкрина	313
Leshnitsa	Лешница	175
Lisets	Лисец	781
Malinovo	Малиново	778
Prelom	Прелом	102
Presyaka	Пресяка	356
Radyuvene	Радювене	797
Skobelevo	Скобелево	321
Slavyani	Славяни	794
Slatina	Слатина	879
Slivek	Сливек	121
Smochan	Смочан	305
Sokolovo	Соколово	144
Slatina	Стефаново	94
Tepava	Тепава	122
Umarevtsi	Умаревци	371
Vladinya	Владиня	490
Yoglav	Йоглав	411
Total		53,578

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lovech Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Aleksandrovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Lovech Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	64,767	64,544	69,423	62,162	57,160	55,545	53,578	...
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 Lovech Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   77.6% Catholicism   0.8% Protestantism   0.8% Islam   3.9% No religion   7.0% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   9.9%

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

References

1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 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.

External links

• Official website (in Bulgarian)