Isperih Municipality
# Isperih Municipality

Isperih Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Исперих) 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 Isperih.

The municipality embraces a territory of 402 $km^2$ (155 sq mi) with a population of 22,916 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area is best known with the 3rd century BC Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari near the village of the same name.

## Settlements

Isperih Municipality includes the following 24 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Isperih | Исперих | 9,017 |
| Belintsi | Белинци | 480 |
| Bardokva | Бърдоква | 289 |
| Delchevo | Делчево | 450 |
| Dragomazh | Драгомъж | 355 |
| Duhovets | Духовец | 542 |
| Golyam Porovets | Голям Поровец | 628 |
| Kitanchevo | Китанчево | 1,549 |
| Konevo | Конево | 131 |
| Kapinovtsi | Къпиновци | 211 |
| Ludogortsi | Лудогорци | 849 |
| Lavino | Лъвино | 1,066 |
| Malko Yonkovo | Малко Йонково | 380 |
| Malak Porovets | Малък Поровец | 388 |
| Pechenitsa | Печеница | 299 |
| Podayva | Подайва | 1,566 |
| Raynino | Райнино | 550 |
| Sveshtari | Свещари | 632 |
| Sredoseltsi | Средоселци | 321 |
| Staro Selishte | Старо селище | 367 |
| Todorovo | Тодорово | 757 |
| Vazovo | Вазово | 986 |
| Yakim Gruevo | Яким Груево | 277 |
| Yonkovo | Йонково | 826 |
| Total | | 22,916 |

## Demography

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

Isperih Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 35,838 | 34,902 | 27,936 | 25,287 | 24,141 | 23,601 | 22,916 | ... |
| 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 Isperih Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

26.7%

Catholicism

0.2%

Protestantism

0.1%

Islam

67.0%

No religion

1.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

4.9% :

