Teteven Municipality

Teteven Municipality Община Тетевен
Municipality
Teteven Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 42°52′N 24°17′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Teteven
Area
• Total	697 km^2 (269 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	22,016
• Density	32/km^2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Teteven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тетевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Teteven.

The municipality embraces a territory of 697 km^2 (269 sq mi) with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E772 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.

Settlements

Teteven Municipality within Lovech Province

Lovech

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Apriltsi

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Troyan

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Teteven

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Lukovit

•

Ugarchin

•

Letnitsa

•

Yablanitsa

Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Teteven	Тетевен	10,613
Babintsi	Бабинци	272
Balgarski Izvor	Български извор	1,304
Cherni Vit	Черни Вит	722
Divchovoto	Дивчовото	187
Galata	Галата	2,532
Glogovo	Глогово	1,472
Glozhene	Гложене	1,059
Golyam Izvor	Голям извор	529
Gradezhnitsa	Градежница	1,789
Malka Zhelyazna	Малка Желязна	144
Ribaritsa	Рибарица	1,137
Vasilyovo	Васильово	256
Total		22,016

Demography

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

Teteven Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	26,661	26,689	25,952	23,768	22,715	22,266	22,016	...
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 Teteven Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   62.6% Catholicism   0.4% Protestantism   0.3% Islam   2.4% No religion   17.1% Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable   17.2%

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
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. 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)