Sitovo Municipality
# Sitovo Municipality

Sitovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ситово) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Sitovo.

The municipality embraces a territory of 270.97 $km^2$ (104.62 sq mi) with a population of 5,810 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road II-21 crosses the area centrally, from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

## Settlements

Sitovo Municipality includes the following 12 places all of them villages:

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Sitovo | Ситово | 847 |
| Bosna | Босна | 371 |
| Dobrotitsa | Добротица | 434 |
| Garvan | Гарван | 421 |
| Irnik | Ирник | 104 |
| Iskra | Искра | 1,856 |
| Lyuben | Любен | 654 |
| Nova Popina | Нова Попина | 88 |
| Polyan | Поляна | 176 |
| Popina | Попина | 701 |
| Slatina | Слатина | 132 |
| Yastrebna | Ястребна | 26 |
| Total | | 5,810 |

## Demography

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

Sitovo Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 10,829 | 9,035 | 7,554 | 6,856 | 6,356 | 6,080 | 5,810 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the plurality in Sitovo Municipality. Turks form the second largest ethnic group and Roma people form the third largest ethnic group.

Ethnic groups in Sitovo Municipality (2011 census) :

| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 49.8% | 49.8% |
| Turks | Turks | 39.6% | 39.6% |
| Roma | Roma | 7.4% | 7.4% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 3.2% | 3.2% |

**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 Sitovo Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

43.8%

Catholicism

0.2%

Protestantism

0.3%

Islam

49.0%

No religion

3.2%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

3.5% :

Most Bulgarians are Orthodox Christians, while most Turks and Roma people are Muslim.

