Levski Municipality
Encyclopedia
Levski municipality is a municipality
(obshtina) in Pleven Province
, Northern Bulgaria
. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Levski.
The municipality embraces a territory of 414 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,487 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 Pleven Province
Pleven Province
Pleven Province is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of 4,333.54 km² with a population, as...
, Northern 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 Levski.
The municipality embraces a territory of 414 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,487 inhabitants.
Settlements
(towns are shown in bold):Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
---|---|---|
Levski Levski (town) Levski is a town in central northern Bulgaria, an administrative center of the homonymous Levski Municipality in the very southeast of Pleven Province. It is located in the valley of the Osam River and was called Karağaç during the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and until 1897, when it was renamed... |
Левски | 10,571 |
Asenovtsi | Асеновци | 1,606 |
Asparuhovo | Аспарухово | 602 |
Bozhurluk | Божурлук | 144 |
Balgarene | Българене | 897 |
Varana | Варана | 98 |
Gradishte | Градище | 1,234 |
Izgrev | Изгрев | 499 |
Kozar Belene | Козар Белене | 843 |
Malchika | Малчика | 1,438 |
Obnova | Обнова | 2,242 |
Stezherovo | Стежерово | 597 |
Tranchovitsa | Трънчовица | 716 |
Total | 21,487 |
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