Tutrakan Municipality
# Tutrakan Municipality

Tutrakan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тутракан) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tutrakan.

The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35 km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

## Settlements

Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places (towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Tutrakan | Тутракан | 9,476 |
| Antimovo | Антимово | 60 |
| Belitsa | Белица | 612 |
| Brenitsa | Бреница | 234 |
| Dunavets | Дунавец | 20 |
| Nova Cherna | Нова Черна | 1,763 |
| Pozharevo | Пожарево | 129 |
| Preslavtsi | Преславци | 574 |
| Staro Selo | Старо село | 997 |
| Shumentsi | Шуменци | 548 |
| Syanovo | Сяново | 112 |
| Tarnovtsi | Търновци | 447 |
| Tsar Samuil | Цар Самуил | 1,486 |
| Tsarev Dol | Царев дол | 81 |
| Varnentsi | Варненци | 381 |
| Total | | 16,920 |

## Demography

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

Tutrakan Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 24,698 | 23,439 | 21,774 | 19,309 | 17,922 | 17,419 | 16,920 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Tutrakan Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people.

Ethnic groups in Tutrakan Municipality (2011 census) :

| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 67.3% | 67.3% |
| Turks | Turks | 26.7% | 26.7% |
| Roma | Roma | 5.1% | 5.1% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 0.9% | 0.9% |

**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 Tutrakan Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

61.7%

Catholicism

0.4%

Protestantism

0.6%

Islam

23.6%

No religion

3.6%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

10.1% :

