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Lovech Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

(obshtina) in Lovech Province

Lovech Province

Lovech Province is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.-Municipalities:...

, Central-North Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

The Danubian Plain constitutes the northern part of Bulgaria, situated north of the Balkan Mountains and south of the Danube. Its western border is the Timok River and to the east it borders the Black Sea. The plain has an area of . It is about long and wide.The relief of the Danubian Plain is...

. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Lovech

Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of 36,296 as of February 2011. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The town is located about 150 km northeast from the capital city of Sofia...

which is also the capital of the province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 930.8 km² with a population of 53,578 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area is known with the covered bridge by Kolyu Ficheto

Kolyu Ficheto

Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

, in the main town, and the spectacular Devetaki cave near to the homonymous village.

Settlements

Lovech Municipality includes the following 35 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Lovech Lovech Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of 36,296 as of February 2011. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The town is located about 150 km northeast from the capital city of Sofia...	Ловеч	38,579
Ablanitsa	Абланица	228
Aleksandrovo	Александрово	2,074
Bahovitsa	Баховица	1,058
Brestovo	Брестово	212
Balgarene	Българене	242
Chavdartsi	Чавдарци	388
Devetaki	Деветаки	243
Doyrentsi	Дойренци	1,250
Drenov	Дренов	429
Dabrava	Дъбрава	38
Goran	Горан	373
Gorno Pavlikene	Горно Павликене	242
Gostinya	Гостиня	186
Hlevene	Хлевене	304
Izvorche	Изворче	54
Kazachevo	Казачево	324
Kakrina Kakrina Kakrina is a village in central northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Municipality, Lovech Province. It lies in the central Fore-Balkan Mountains, at an altitude of . As of 2008, it has a population of 298....	Къкрина	313
Leshnitsa	Лешница	175
Lisets	Лисец	781
Malinovo	Малиново	778
Prelom	Прелом	102
Presyaka	Пресяка	356
Radyuvene	Радювене	797
Skobelevo	Скобелево	321
Slavyani	Славяни	794
Slatina	Слатина	879
Slivek	Сливек	121
Smochan	Смочан	305
Sokolovo Sokolovo Lapovo is a village situated in Lazarevac municipality in Serbia....	Соколово	144
Slatina	Стефаново	94
Tepava	Тепава	122
Umarevtsi	Умаревци	371
Vladinya	Владиня	490
Yoglav	Йоглав	411
Total		53,578

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Lovech Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Aleksandrovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Settlements

Demography

See also