Lovech_Municipality

Lovech Municipality

Lovech Municipality

Municipality in Lovech, Bulgaria

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.

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The municipality is 930.8 km2 (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 includes the following 35 places (towns are shown in bold):

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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:

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. [4]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. [5]
    National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. [6]
    „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. [7]
    "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. [8]
    "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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