Ivanovo Municipality

Municipality in Ruse, Bulgaria

Ivanovo Municipality

Община Иваново

Municipality

Rocks in Rusenski Lom Nature Park

Ivanovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.

Coordinates: 43°41′N 25°57′E﻿ / ﻿43.683°N 25.950°E﻿ / 43.683; 25.950
Country|  Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)| Ruse
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)| Ivanovo
Area

• Total

| 495.45 km2 (191.29 sq mi)
Population

(December 2009)[1]

• Total

| 10,339
• Density| 21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+3 (EEST)

Ivanovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Иваново) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Ivanovo.

The municipality covers a territory of 495.45 km2 (191.29 sq mi) with a population of 10,339 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The area is best known with the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other important sights in the municipality include the medieval Bulgarian fortress of Cherven, which reached its apogee in the 13th and 14th centuries and features a well-preserved keep from the 14th century, and the Rusenski Lom Nature Park.

The population is predominantly Bulgarian (83.5%), with Turkish (9.4%), Romani (5.9%) and other minorities (1.2%, mostly Tatars in the village of Trastenik).[2]

The main road E85 crosses the area from south to north, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo and respectively Pleven and Sofia.

## Settlements

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Ruse

Slivo Pole

Borovo

Byala

Vetovo

Dve Mogili

Ivanovo

Tsenovo

Ivanovo Municipality within Ruse Province

Ivanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village  | Cyrillic | Population[3][4][5]
(December 2009)

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|

Ivanovo | Иваново  | 912
Bozhichen | Божичен  | 175
Cherven | Червен  | 283
Koshov | Кошов  | 356
Krasen | Красен  | 738
Mechka | Мечка  | 690
Nisovo | Нисово  | 129
Pirgovo | Пиргово  | 1,949
Svalenik | Сваленик  | 975
Shtraklevo | Щръклево  | 2,510
Tabachka | Табачка  | 132
Trastenik | Тръстениик  | 1,362
Tserovets | Церовец  | 128
Total  |  | 10,339

## Demography

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

Ivanovo Municipality

Year | 1975  | 1985  | 1992  | 2001 | 2005  | 2007  | 2009  | 2011
Population | 11,994  | 9,872  | 14,801  | 11,092  | 11,229  | 10,919  | 10,339  | ...
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8]

### Religion

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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 Ivanovo Municipality [9]

|  |
Orthodox Christianity |

| 73.9%
Catholicism |

| 0.6%
Protestantism |

| 0.5%
Islam |

| 16.2%
No religion |

| 2.6%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable |

| 6.2%

## See also

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* Provinces of Bulgaria
* Municipalities of Bulgaria
* List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

## References

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

## External links

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* Ivanovo municipality website (in Bulgarian)

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Places adjacent to Ivanovo Municipality

|  Romania beyond the Danube river | Ruse Municipality |

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Tsenovo Municipality, Ruse Province |

Ivanovo Municipality

| Vetovo Municipality, Ruse Province
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Borovo Municipality, Ruse Province | Dve Mogili Municipality, Ruse Province | Tsar Kaloyan Municipality, Razgrad Province

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Municipalities of Ruse Province

* Borovo
* Byala
* Dve Mogili
* Ivanovo
* Ruse
* Slivo Pole
* Tsenovo
* Vetovo

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