Maritsa Municipality is located in the Plovdiv Province

Plovdiv Province

Plovdiv Province is a province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities on a territory of 5,972.9 km² with a total population, as of December 2009, of 701,684 inhabitants...

, southern 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...

 on the northern bank of the Maritsa River. It has 30,676 inhabitants and consists only of village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

s. The municipality has thriving industry with around €400 000 000 invested in the recent years. Its administrative center is Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 but the city is not part of the municipality.

List of villages in the Maritsa municipality:

• Benkovski
• Dink
• Graf Ignatievo
  Graf Ignatievo
  Graf Ignatievo is a village in the Maritsa municipality, southern Bulgaria. As of 2006 it has 2015 inhabitants. There is the major military Graf Ignatievo Air Base of great importance used by the Bulgarian Air Force and the US.- External links :* * * *...
  
  
• Kalekovets
  Kalekovets
  Kalekovets is a village in the Maritsa municipality, Plovdiv Province. As of 2006 it has 2 613 inhabitants....
  
  
• Kostievo
• Krislovo
• Manole
• Manolsko Konare
• Radinovo
  Radinovo
  Radinovo is a village in the Maritsa municipality, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria. As of 2006 the population is 720. There is a large plant producing refrigerators owned by Liebherr , as well as a tobacco processings plant and several other industrial enterprises....
  
  
• Rogosh
• Skutare
  Skutare
  Skutare is a village in the Maritsa municipality, southern Bulgaria. it has 2 091 inhabitants. Skutare is situated about 9 km. outside of the city of Plovdiv. A major foreign plant producing fabrics was built in the village and was one of the first large investment projects in the region....
  
  
• Stroevo
• Trilistnik
• Trud
• Tsaratsovo
  Tsaratsovo
  Тsaratsovo is a village in the Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria. It is part of the Maritsa municipality and it has 2,216 inhabitants.In 2007 a several million euro electronics plant was inaugurated in Tsaratsovo. It has a bult-up area of 3,000 m² and employs 80 workers.In the same year a new...
  
  
• Voivodinovo
  Voivodinovo
  Voivodinovo is a village in the Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria. As of 2006 it has 2,018 inhabitants. It is one of the biggest villages in the Maritsa municipality and is at 2 km to the east of Plovdiv...
  
  
• Voisil
  Voisil
  Voisil is a village in the Plovdiv Province, southern Bulgaria. the village has 981 inhabitants....
  
  
• Yasno Pole
• Zhelyazno

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