Glavinitsa_Municipality

Glavinitsa Municipality

Glavinitsa Municipality

Municipality in Silistra, Bulgaria

For other uses, see Glavinitsa (disambiguation).

Glavinitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Главиница) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Glavinitsa.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 481.23 km2 (185.80 sq mi)[1] with a population of 12,610 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[2]

The main road II-21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

Glavinitsa Municipality includes the following 23 places all of them villages:

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Demography

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

Glavinitsa Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 10,230 9,930 15,579 13,848 13,298 12,959 12,610 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8]

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Turks constitute the majority of the population of Glavinitsa Municipality, followed by a large Bulgarian minority and a small Roma community.

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Demographic indicators

The municipality of Glavinitsa is losing many inhabitants. Last decade, the number of births decreased slightly while the number of deaths increased significantly.

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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:

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in Bulgarian)Characterization of Silistra Province Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute – Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute – Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute – Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants – December 2009
  5. [5]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute – Bulgarian Settlements 1000–5000 inhabitants – December 2009
  6. [6]
    National Statistical Institute – Census 2001
  7. [7]
    „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  8. [8]
    "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. February 1, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  9. [9]
    "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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