Dolni Dabnik Municipality
# Dolni Dabnik Municipality

Dolni Dabnik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долни Дъбник) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Dabnik.

The municipality embraces a territory of 310 $km^2$ (120 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,438 inhabitants.

## Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Dolni Dabnik | Долни Дъбник | 4,761 |
| Barkach | Бъркач | 760 |
| Gorni Dabnik | Горни Дъбник | 1,914 |
| Gradina | Градина | 842 |
| Krushovitsa | Крушовица | 2,051 |
| Petarnitsa | Петърница | 1,720 |
| Sadovets | Садовец | 2,390 |
| Total | | 14,438 |

## Demography

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

Dolni Dabnik Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 21,653 | 18,644 | 17,377 | 15,701 | 15,137 | 14,810 | 14,438 | ... |
| 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 Dolni Dabnik Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

74.8%

Catholicism

0.5%

Protestantism

0.6%

Islam

4.2%

No religion

12.7%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

6.2% :

