Teteven Municipality
# Teteven Municipality

Teteven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тетевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Teteven.

The municipality embraces a territory of 697 $km^2$ (269 sq mi) with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road E772 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.

## Settlements

Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Teteven | Тетевен | 10,613 |
| Babintsi | Бабинци | 272 |
| Balgarski Izvor | Български извор | 1,304 |
| Cherni Vit | Черни Вит | 722 |
| Divchovoto | Дивчовото | 187 |
| Galata | Галата | 2,532 |
| Glogovo | Глогово | 1,472 |
| Glozhene | Гложене | 1,059 |
| Golyam Izvor | Голям извор | 529 |
| Gradezhnitsa | Градежница | 1,789 |
| Malka Zhelyazna | Малка Желязна | 144 |
| Ribaritsa | Рибарица | 1,137 |
| Vasilyovo | Васильово | 256 |
| Total | | 22,016 |

## Demography

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

Teteven Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 26,661 | 26,689 | 25,952 | 23,768 | 22,715 | 22,266 | 22,016 | ... |
| 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 Teteven Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

62.6%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.3%

Islam

2.4%

No religion

17.1%

Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable

17.2% :

