Strazhitsa 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 Veliko Tarnovo Province

Veliko Tarnovo Province

Veliko Tarnovo is a province in the middle of the northern part of Bulgaria. Its capital city, Veliko Tarnovo, is of historical significance as it is known as the capital of Medieval Bulgaria...

, Central-North Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located mostly in 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...

 but also covering parts of the so called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Strazhitsa

Strazhitsa

Strazhitsa is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Strazhitsa Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of the Province. The town is located in the central Danubian Plain, not far from the Balkan Mountains, 45...

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The municipality embraces a territory of 512 km² with a population of 14,742 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

The Hemus motorway or Haemus motorway , designated A2, is a motorway currently under construction in Bulgaria. Its planned length is 433 km, of which 129 km are in operation , divided into two sections — Sofia-Yablanitsa and Varna-Shumen...

 is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 with the port of Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

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Settlements

Strazhitsa Municipality includes the following 22 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Strazhitsa Strazhitsa Strazhitsa is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Strazhitsa Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of the Province. The town is located in the central Danubian Plain, not far from the Balkan Mountains, 45...	Стражица	5,170
Asenovo	Асеново	705
Balkantsi	Балканци	159
Blagoevo	Благоево	449
Bryagovitsa	Бряговица	500
Gorski Senovets	Горски Сеновец	358
Kavlak	Кавлак	79
Kamen	Камен	1,651
Kesarevo	Кесарево	1,608
Lozen	Лозен	456
Lyubentsi	Любенци	8
Mirovo	Мирово	178
Nikolaevo	Николаево	125
Nova Varbovka	Нова Върбовка	319
Novo Gradishte	Ново градище	145
Sushitsa	Сушица	866
Temenuga	Теменуга	30
Tsarski Izvor	Царски извор	821
Vinograd Vinograd For the Ukrainian village, see Vynohrad Vinograd is a village in Strazhitsa Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria....	Виноград	773
Vladislav	Владислав	295
Vodno	Водно	11
Zhelezartsi	Железарци	36
Total		14,742

Demography

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

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
  Provinces of Bulgaria
  Since 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 Bulgaria
  Municipalities of Bulgaria
  The 28 provinces of Bulgaria are divided into 264 municipalities .-Blagoevgrad Province:# Bansko Municipality # Belitsa Municipality # Blagoevgrad Municipality...
  
  
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

External links

• Official website