Dryanovo Municipality
# Dryanovo Municipality

Dryanovo (or Drjanovo) Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Дряново) is a municipality (obshtina) in Gabrovo Province, North-central Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan between Stara planina mountain and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dryanovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of 248.5 $km^2$ (95.9 sq mi) with a population of 9,587 inhabitants, as of December 2011.

The area is best known with the Dryanovo Monastery, situated close to the main town, and Bacho Kiro Cave.

## Settlements

Dryanovo Municipality includes the following 46 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Dryanovo | Дряново | 8,043 |
| Balvantsite | Балванците | 1 |
| Buchukovtsi | Бучуковци | 8 |
| Chukovo | Чуково | 26 |
| Denchevtsi | Денчевци | 21 |
| Dlagnya | Длъгня | 24 |
| Dobrenite | Добрените | 4 |
| Dolni Varpishta | Долни Върпища | 3 |
| Dolni Dragoycha | Долни Драгойча | 3 |
| Docha | Доча | 10 |
| Ganchovets | Ганчовец | 159 |
| Gesha | Геша | 7 |
| Glushka | Глушка | 26 |
| Gozdeyka | Гоздейка | 22 |
| Golemi Balgareni | Големи Българени | 10 |
| Gorni Varpishta | Горни Върпища | 4 |
| Gostilitsa | Гостилица | 347 |
| Garnya | Гърня | 3 |
| Ignatovtsi | Игнатовци | 2 |
| Iskra | Искра | 4 |
| Kalomen | Каломен | 9 |
| Karaivantsa | Караиванца | 43 |
| Katrandzhii | Катранджии | 42 |
| Kereka | Керека | 142 |
| Kosarka | Косарка | 44 |
| Kumanite | Куманите | 4 |
| Malki Balgareni | Малки Българени | 0 |
| Manoya | Маноя | 48 |
| Peyna | Пейна | 9 |
| Petkovtsi | Петковци | 3 |
| Plachka | Плачка | 2 |
| Radovtsi | Радовци | 137 |
| Ritya | Ритя | 0 |
| Runya | Руня | 32 |
| Rusinovtsi | Русиновци | 10 |
| Salasuka | Саласука | 4 |
| Skalsko | Скалско | 96 |
| Slaveykovo | Славейково | 65 |
| Sokolovo | Соколово | 52 |
| Syarovtsi | Сяровци | 6 |
| Shushnya | Шушня | 2 |
| Turkincha | Туркинча | 26 |
| Tsareva Livada | Царева ливада | 789 |
| Yantra | Янтра | 139 |
| Zaya | Зая | 43 |
| Total | | 10,502 |

## Demography

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

Dryanovo Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 16,966 | 15,525 | 13,557 | 11,705 | 11,009 | 10,724 | 10,502 | 9,587 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### 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 Dryanovo Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

80.2%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.8%

Islam

2.8%

No religion

7.6%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.2% :

