Tsar Kaloyan Municipality

Tsar Kaloyan Municipality
Община Цар Калоян
Municipality
Tsar Kaloyan Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Tsar Kaloyan Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Coordinates: 43°35′N 26°14′E / 43.583°N 26.233°E / 43.583; 26.233
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Razgrad
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Tsar Kaloyan
Area
 • Total
186.42 km2 (71.98 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
6,314
 • Density34/km2 (88/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Tsar Kaloyan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Цар Калоян, former name Hlebarovo Municipality) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 27 km southeast of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tsar Kaloyan.

The municipality embraces a territory of 186.42 km2 (71.98 sq mi) with a population of 6,314 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

The main road E70 crosses the area, connecting the province centre of Razgrad with the city of Ruse and respectively the Danube Bridge with the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Tsar Kaloyan Municipality includes the following 3 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Tsar Kaloyan Цар Калоян 3,856
Ezerche Езерче 1,975
Kostandenets Костанденец 483
Total 6,314

Demography

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

Tsar Kaloyan Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 11,193 9,902 8,292 8,568 6,679 6,527 6,314 ...
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 Tsar Kaloyan Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 24.1%
Catholicism
 
 0.1%
Protestantism
 
 0.1%
Islam
 
 60.7%
No religion
 
 1.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 13.1%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (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. ^ (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.