Yablanitsa Municipality

Yablanitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ябланица) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan, north of Stara Planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Yablanitsa.

Yablanitsa Municipality Община Ябланица
Municipality
Yablanitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°3′N 24°5′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Yablanitsa
Area
• Total	276 km^2 (107 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	6,427
• Density	23/km^2 (60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km² with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

As of 2010, the west operating part of Hemus motorway ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Lovech

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Apriltsi

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Troyan

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Teteven

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Lukovit

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Ugarchin

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Letnitsa

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Yablanitsa

Yablanitsa Municipality within Lovech Province

Yablanitsa Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Yablanitsa	Ябланица	2,896
Batultsi	Батулци	205
Brestnitsa	Брестница	1,062
Dobrevtsi	Добревци	547
Dabravata	Дъбравата	88
Golyama Brestnitsa	Голяма Брестница	182
Malak Izvor	Малък извор	243
Oreshene	Орешене	332
Zlatna Panega	Златна Панега	872
Total		6,427

Demography

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

Yablanitsa Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	9,411	8,243	7,532	6,902	6,705	6,556	6,427	...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

Vital statistics

The municipality of Yablanitsa has one of the highest birth rate in Bulgaria. Especially Roma people tend to have high fertility rates.

	Population	Live births	Deaths	Natural growth	Birth rate (‰)	Death rate (‰)	Natural growth rate (‰)
2000	7,195	81	138	-57	11.3	19.2	-7.9
2001	6,822	91	136	-45	13.3	19.9	-6.6
2002	6,816	94	132	-38	13.8	19.4	-5.6
2003	6,836	102	116	-14	14.9	17.0	-2.0
2004	6,751	90	124	-34	13.3	18.4	-5.0
2005	6,705	95	114	-19	14.2	17.0	-2.8
2006	6,629	94	100	-6	14.2	15.1	-0.9
2007	6,556	89	98	-9	13.6	14.9	-1.4
2008	6,451	83	104	-21	12.9	16.1	-3.3
2009	6,427	102	92	10	15.9	14.3	1.6
2010	6,334	85	137	-52	13.4	21.6	-8.2
2011	6,210	82	100	-18	13.2	16.1	-2.9
2012	6,150	81	112	-31	13.2	18.2	-5.0
2013	6,092	85	106	-21	14.0	17.4	-3.4
2014	6,017	76	102	-26	12.6	17.0	-4.3
2015	5,971	66	103	-37	11.1	17.3	-6.2
2016	5,902	67	111	-44	11.4	18.8	-7.5
2017	5,786	82	136	-54	14.2	23.5	-9.3
2018	5,727	76	105	-29	13.3	18.3	-5.1

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 Yablanitsa Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   88.9% Catholicism   0.6% Protestantism   0.6% Islam   0.5% No religion   4.1% Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable   5.3%

See also

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

References

1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
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.

External links

• Official website (in Bulgarian)