Avren Municipality
# Avren Municipality

Avren Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Аврен) is a seaside municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre – the village of Avren.

Its area spreads from Provadiya Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the south the municipality is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 380 $km^2$ (150 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 9,089 inhabitants.

## Settlements

Avren Municipality includes the following 17 places, all of them are villages:

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Avren | Аврен | 750 |
| Benkovski | Бенковски | 445 |
| Bliznatsi | Близнаци | 842 |
| Bolyartsi | Болярци | 192 |
| Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 34 |
| Dabravino | Дъбравино | 1,460 |
| Kazashka Reka | Казашка река | 326 |
| Kitka | Китка | 247 |
| Krusha | Круша | 113 |
| Priseltsi | Приселци | 849 |
| Ravna Gora | Равна гора | 236 |
| Sadovo | Садово | 351 |
| Sindel | Синдел | 1,259 |
| Tsarevtsi | Царевци | 841 |
| Trastikovo | Тръстиково | 657 |
| Yunak | Юнак | 145 |
| Zdravets | Здравец | 342 |
| Total | | 9,089 |

## Demography

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

Avren Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 12,054 | 9,676 | 8,817 | 8,714 | 9,074 | 9,064 | 9,089 | ... |
| 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 Avren Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

62.3%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.6%

Islam

16.6%

No religion

6.6%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

13.5% :

A majority of the population of Avren Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 62.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. There is a relatively large Muslim minority and a large part did not answer.

