Pleven Municipality
# Pleven Municipality

Pleven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Плевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Pleven which is also the capital of the Province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 812.10 $km^2$ (313.55 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 138,095 inhabitants.

## Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Pleven | Плевен | 111,426 |
| Beglezh | Беглеж | 782 |
| Bohot | Бохот | 880 |
| Brestovets | Брестовец | 1,124 |
| Brashlyanitsa | Бръшляница | 848 |
| Bukovlak | Буковлък | 3,850 |
| Varbitsa | Върбица | 656 |
| Gortalovo | Горталово | 186 |
| Grivitsa | Гривица | 1,778 |
| Disevitsa | Дисевица | 1,127 |
| Koilovtsi | Коиловци | 1,123 |
| Kartozhabene | Къртожабене | 141 |
| Kashin | Къшин | 303 |
| Laskar | Ласкар | 129 |
| Mechka | Мечка | 849 |
| Nikolaevo | Николаево | 740 |
| Opanets | Опанец | 1796 |
| Pelishat | Пелишат | 794 |
| Radishevo | Радишево | 507 |
| Ralevo | Ралево | 347 |
| Slavyanovo | Славяново | 4,422 |
| Todorovo | Тодорово | 425 |
| Tuchenitsa | Тученица | 339 |
| Tarnene | Търнене | 987 |
| Yasen | Ясен | 2536 |
| Total | | 138,095 |

## Demography

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

Pleven Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 145,380 | 161,991 | 160,480 | 149,174 | 140,967 | 139,573 | 138,095 | ... |
| 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 Pleven Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

80.8%

Catholicism

1.1%

Protestantism

0.8%

Islam

1.9%

No religion

7.9%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

7.5% :

