Zavet Municipality

Zavet Municipality
Община Завет
Municipality
Zavet Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Zavet Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Coordinates: 43°46′N 26°38′E / 43.767°N 26.633°E / 43.767; 26.633
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Razgrad
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Zavet
Area
 • Total
273.88 km2 (105.75 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
11,338
 • Density41.398/km2 (107.22/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Zavet Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Завет) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Zavet.

The municipality embraces a territory of 273.88 km2 (105.75 sq mi) with a population of 11,338 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Zavet Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
ZavetЗавет3,371
BrestoveneБрестовене2,874
Ivan ShishmanovoИван Шишманово445
OstrovoОстрово2,229
PrelezПрелез760
SushevoСушево669
VeseletsВеселец990
Total11,338

Demography

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

Zavet Municipality
Year19751985199220012005200720092011
Population12,67211,48413,63712,33311,94311,66511,338...
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 Zavet Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
16.0%
Catholicism
0.2%
Protestantism
0.3%
Islam
67.9%
No religion
1.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
14.2%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  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. ^ (in English)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.
  • Official website (in Bulgarian)
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