Makresh Municipality is a municipality

Municipality

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 (obshtina) in Vidin Province

Vidin Province

Vidin Province is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities...

, Northwestern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, located in the Danubian Plain

Danubian Plain (Bulgaria)

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 about 12 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Makresh

Makresh

Makresh is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Makresh Municipality, which lies in the western part of Vidin Province, close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border...

. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west.

The municipality embraces a territory of 229 km² with a population of 1,938 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The easternmost border of the area is linked by the main road E79

European route E70

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 which connects the province centre of Vidin

Vidin

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 with the city of Montana

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 and respectively with the western operating part of Hemus motorway

Hemus motorway

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.

Settlements

Makresh Municipality includes the following 7 places all of them villages:

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Makresh Makresh Makresh is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Makresh Municipality, which lies in the western part of Vidin Province, close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border...	Макреш	473
Kireevo	Киреево	268
Podgore	Подгоре	278
Rakovitsa	Раковица	611
Tolovitsa Tolovitsa Tolovitsa is a village in northwestern Bulgaria.It is in Vidin region and Makresh Municipality. It is one of the smallest villages in the region with only 65 inhabitants.- Geography :...	Толовица	70
Tsar Shishmanovo	Цар Шишманово	157
Valchek	Вълчек	81
Total		1,938

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

• Info website