Sevlievo_Municipality

Sevlievo Municipality

Sevlievo Municipality

Municipality in Gabrovo, Bulgaria

Sevlievo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Севлиево) is a municipality (obshtina) in Gabrovo Province, North-central Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan between Stara planina mountain and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Sevlievo.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 1,040 km2 (400 sq mi) with a population of 39,537 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The area is best known with the Batoshevski Monastery, situated close to Batoshevo village.

Settlements

Sevlievo Municipality includes the following 50 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 Sevlievo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Gradnitsa and Stokite and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Sevlievo Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 42,625 41,708 47,647 43,105 40,989 40,370 39,537 ...
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
  2. [2]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  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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