Knezha Municipality
# Knezha Municipality

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

The municipality embraces a territory of 317.83 $km^2$ with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,839 inhabitants.

## Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Knezha | Кнежа | 11,191 |
| Brenitsa | Бреница | 2,039 |
| Enitsa | Еница | 1,098 |
| Lazarovo | Лазарово | 511 |
| Total | | 14,839 |

## Demography

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

Knezha Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 22,031 | 20,329 | 18,640 | 17,079 | 15,932 | 15,372 | 14,839 | ... |
| 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 Knezha Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

79.8%

Catholicism

0.9%

Protestantism

0.6%

Islam

0.5%

No religion

9.9%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

8.4% :

