Provadiya Municipality
Encyclopedia
Provadiya Municipality is a municipality
(obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria
. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Provadiya
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The municipality embraces a territory of 576.6 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 23,045 inhabitants.
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 Varna Province, Northeastern 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...
. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Provadiya
Provadiya
Provadia is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province, located in a deep karst gorge along the Provadia River not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Provadiya Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of...
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The municipality embraces a territory of 576.6 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 23,045 inhabitants.
Settlements
Provadiya Municipality includes the following 25 places (towns are shown in bold):| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Provadiya Provadiya Provadia is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province, located in a deep karst gorge along the Provadia River not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Provadiya Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of... |
Провадия | 12,901 |
| Blaskovo | Блъсково | 1,354 |
| Bozveliysko | Бозвелийско | 1,296 |
| Barzitsa | Бързица | 270 |
| Chayka | Чайка | 94 |
| Cherkovna | Черковна | 240 |
| Chernook | Черноок | 247 |
| Dobrina | Добрина | 256 |
| Gradinarovo | Градинарово | 801 |
| Hrabrovo | Храброво | 439 |
| Kiten | Китен | 52 |
| Komarevo | Комарево | 463 |
| Krivnya | Кривня | 400 |
| Manastir | Манастир | 563 |
| Nenovo | Неново | 69 |
| Ovchaga | Овчага | 184 |
| Petrov Dol | Петров дол | 344 |
| Ravna | Равна | 179 |
| Slaveykovo | Славейково | 476 |
| Snezhina | Снежина | 570 |
| Staroselets | Староселец | 62 |
| Tutrakantsi | Тутраканци | 249 |
| Venchan Venchan Venchan is a village in the Provadiya Municipality, Varna Province, north-eastern Bulgaria. It is situated at 7 km to the north-west of Provadiya. As of 2007 the village has 364 inhabitants.... |
Венчан | 338 |
| Zhitnitsa | Житница | 950 |
| Zlatina | Златина | 248 |
| Total | 23,045 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.See also
- Provinces of BulgariaProvinces of BulgariaSince 1999, Bulgaria has been divided into 28 provinces which correspond approximately to the 28 districts that existed before 1987. In 1987, during the Communist regime of Todor Zhivkov, the districts were consolidated into nine larger provinces , which survived until 1999.Each province is named...
- Municipalities of BulgariaMunicipalities of BulgariaThe 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
- List of cities and towns in Bulgaria