Zavet Municipality

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.

Zavet Municipality

Община Завет
Municipality
Zavet Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Coordinates: 43°46′N 26°38′E
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Razgrad
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Zavet
Area
 • Total273.88 km2 (105.75 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total11,338
 • Density41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 273.88 km² 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/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Zavet Завет 3,371
Brestovene Брестовене 2,874
Ivan Shishmanovo Иван Шишманово 445
Ostrovo Острово 2,229
Prelez Прелез 760
Sushevo Сушево 669
Veselets Веселец 990
Total 11,338

Demography

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

Zavet Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,672 11,484 13,637 12,333 11,943 11,665 11,338 ...
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%
gollark: I don't know if the rules allow it but meh.
gollark: Move stuff so it's BABA IS MELT AND YOU at the bottom, and you should be left with BABA IS, and push the IS to beside the HOT then put the BABA beside that.
gollark: Or probably "WATER IS YOU".
gollark: You could move stuff so "BABA IS HOT", I guess.
gollark: I see.

See also

References
  1. (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.
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