Teteven Municipality
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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 697km2(269sqmi) with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road E772 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.
Settlements
Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (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, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |
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:
| 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
External links
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