Lovech Province

Lovech Province (Bulgarian: Област Ловеч, transliterated Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) 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.[1][2][3]

Lovech Province

Oбласт Ловеч
Province
Location of Lovech Province in Bulgaria
CountryBulgaria
CapitalLovech
Municipalities8
Government
 • GovernorGeorgi Terziyski
Area
 • Total4,128 km2 (1,594 sq mi)
Population
 (February 2011)
 • Total141,422
 • Density34/km2 (89/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
License plateOB
Websiteoblastlovech.org

Municipalities

The Lovech province (област, oblast) contains eight municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.

Municipality Cyrillic Pop.[1][2][3] Town/Village Pop.[4][2][5]
Apriltsi Априлци 3,554 Apriltsi 3,207
Letnitsa Летница 5,101 Letnitsa 3,739
Lovech Ловеч 53,578 Lovech 38,579
Lukovit Луковит 19,469 Lukovit 9,630
Teteven Тетевен 22,016 Teteven 10,613
Troyan Троян 33,827 Troyan 21,997
Ugarchin Угърчин 7,181 Ugarchin 2,832
Yablanitsa Ябланица 6,427 Yablanitsa 2,896

Population
Building of Lovech Province administration

The Lovech province had a population of 169,951 according to a 2001 census, of which 49.1% were male and 50.9% were female.[6] As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153[1] of which 29.4% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.[7]

The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:

Lovech Province
Year 1946 1956 1965 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 217,203 214,213 217,342 216,844 202,968 190,262 169,951 160,202 156,437 151,153 141 422
Sources: National Statistical Institute,[1] „Census 2001“,[2] „Census 2011“,[3] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,??

Ethnic groups
Ethnic groups in Lovech Province (2011 census)
Ethnic group Percentage
Bulgarians
 
 90.9%
Romani
 
 4.4%
Turks
 
 3.3%
others and indefinable
 
 1.4%
Lovech's ruined fortress.
The Glozhene Monastery near Teteven.

Total population (2011 census): 141 422
Ethnic groups (2011 census):[8] Identified themselves: 130 180 persons:

  • Bulgarians: 118 346 (90,91%)
  • Romani: 5 705 (4,38%)
  • Turks: 4 337 (3,33%)
  • Others and indefinable: 1 792 (1,38%)

A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census

In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):[9]

Ethnic groupPopulationPercentage
Bulgarians152,19489.552%
Turkish8,4764.987%
Romani6,3163.716%
Russians2690.158%
Armenians120.007%
Vlachs4580.269%
Macedonians70.004%
Greeks210.012%
Ukrainians290.017%
Jewish10.001%
Romanians30.002%
Other910.054%

Language

In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population): 154,157 Bulgarian (90.7%), 6,994 Turkish (4.1%), 6,033 Romani (3.5%), and 1,123 other (0.7%).[10]

Religion
Religions in Lovech Province (2011 census)[11]
Religious group Percentage
Orthodox Christian
 
 59.75%
Muslim
 
 2.3%
Protestant Christian
 
 0.9%
Roman Catholic Christian
 
 0.5%
others and indefinable
 
 36.46%

Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:[12]

Census 2001
religious adherence population %
Orthodox Christians 146,778 86.36%
Muslims 10,501 6.18%
Protestants 879 0.52%
Roman Catholics 366 0.22%
Other 688 0.40%
Religion not mentioned 10,739 6.32%
total 169,951 100%

References
  1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in English) „WorldCityPopulation“
  3. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  4. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  5. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  6. (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex Archived 2019-03-22 at the Wayback Machine from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001 Archived 2017-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
  7. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009 Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute Archived 2013-04-05 at WebCite (in Bulgarian)
  9. (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Ethnic Group from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001 Archived 2017-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
  10. (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Mother Tongue from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001 Archived 2017-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ""Religious composition: 2011 census"". pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  12. (in Bulgarian) Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001 Archived 2010-09-07 at the Wayback Machine

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