Samuil Municipality

Samuil Municipality
Община Самуил
Municipality
Samuil Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Samuil Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Coordinates: 43°32′N 26°44′E / 43.533°N 26.733°E / 43.533; 26.733
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Razgrad
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Samuil
Area
 • Total
250.29 km2 (96.64 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
7,522
 • Density30/km2 (78/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Samuil Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Самуил) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Samuil.

The municipality embraces a territory of 250 km2 (97 sq mi) with a population of 7,522 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Samuil Municipality includes the following 14 places all of them villages:

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Samuil Самуил 1,543
Bogdantsi Богданци 534
Bogomiltsi Богомилци 265
Golyama Voda Голяма вода 328
Golyam Izvor Голям Извор 425
Harsovo Хърсово 584
Huma Хума 245
Kara Mihal Кара Михал 79
Krivitsa Кривица 225
Nozharovo Ножарово 571
Pchelina Пчелина 279
Vladimirovtsi Владимировци 1,170
Zdravets Здравец 396
Zhelyazkovets Желязковец 878
Total 7,522

Demography

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

Samuil Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 14,865 12,472 9,585 8,164 7,867 7,740 7,522 ...
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 Samuil Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 11.4%
Catholicism
 
 0.3%
Protestantism
 
 0.2%
Islam
 
 84.3%
No religion
 
 1.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 2.4%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  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. ^ (in English)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.