Lovech Municipality

Municipality in Lovech, Bulgaria

Lovech Municipality

Община Ловеч

Municipality

Lovech Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.

Coordinates: 43°8′N 24°44′E﻿ / ﻿43.133°N 24.733°E﻿ / 43.133; 24.733
Country|  Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)| Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)| Lovech
Area

• Total| 930.8 km2 (359.4 sq mi)
Population

(December 2009)[1]

• Total| 53,578
• Density| 58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+3 (EEST)

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.

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

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Lovech Municipality within Lovech Province

Lovech

Apriltsi

Troyan

Teteven

Lukovit

Ugarchin

Letnitsa

Yablanitsa

Lovech Municipality includes the following 35 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village  | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)

|
|

Lovech | Ловеч | 38,579
Ablanitsa | Абланица  | 228
Aleksandrovo | Александрово  | 2,074
Bahovitsa | Баховица  | 1,058
Brestovo | Брестово  | 212
Balgarene | Българене  | 242
Chavdartsi | Чавдарци  | 388
Devetaki | Деветаки  | 243
Doyrentsi | Дойренци  | 1,250
Drenov | Дренов  | 429
Dabrava | Дъбрава  | 38
Goran | Горан  | 373
Gorno Pavlikene | Горно Павликене  | 242
Gostinya | Гостиня  | 186
Hlevene | Хлевене  | 304
Izvorche | Изворче  | 54
Kazachevo | Казачево  | 324
Kakrina | Къкрина  | 313
Leshnitsa | Лешница  | 175
Lisets | Лисец  | 781
Malinovo | Малиново  | 778
Prelom | Прелом  | 102
Presyaka | Пресяка  | 356
Radyuvene | Радювене  | 797
Skobelevo | Скобелево  | 321
Slavyani | Славяни  | 794
Slatina | Слатина  | 879
Slivek | Сливек  | 121
Smochan | Смочан  | 305
Sokolovo | Соколово  | 144
Slatina | Стефаново  | 94
Tepava | Тепава  | 122
Umarevtsi | Умаревци  | 371
Vladinya | Владиня  | 490
Yoglav | Йоглав  | 411
Total  |  | 53,578

## Demography

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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

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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 Lovech Municipality [8]

|  |
Orthodox Christianity |

| 77.6%
Catholicism |

| 0.8%
Protestantism |

| 0.8%
Islam |

| 3.9%
No religion |

| 7.0%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable |

| 9.9%

## 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 English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 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. ^ 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.

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Municipalities of Lovech Province

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* Letnitsa
* Lovech
* Lukovit
* Teteven
* Troyan
* Ugarchin
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