Cherven Bryag Municipality
The municipality is located by the right side of the Iskar River, close to the inlet of Zlatna Panega River. It has area of 584 km (225 sq mi).
It borders with Lukovit, Roman, Dolni Dabnik, Iskar, Knezha and Byala Slatina municipalities. The Sofia - Rousse highway and Sofia-Varna railroad pass through municipality.
The municipality has 37 protected areas, including Kuklite ("The Dolls") rock formations on the lands of Resselets village; Kaleto tectonic ridge on the lands of Reselets village; Skoka waterfall on the lands of Reselets; Haydoushka cave near Deventsi; Sedlarkata Rock Bridge on the lands of Rakita; Neolithic settlements near Telish, Thracian settlements in Chomakovtsi, Roman cites near Resselets and Chomakovtsi.
Settlements
Settlement | Cyrillic | Postal code | Status | Population (December 2009) |
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Breste | Бресте | 5992 | village | 440 |
Glava | Глава | 5985 | village | 1,397 |
Gornik | Горник | 5991 | village | 1,250 |
Deventsi | Девенци | 5995 | village | 775 |
Koynare | Койнаре | 5986 | town | 4,464 |
Lepitsa | Лепица | 5987 | village | 458 |
Radomirtsi | Радомирци | 5997 | village | 1,523 |
Rakita | Ракита | 5998 | village | 938 |
Reselets | Реселец | 5993 | village | 1,061 |
Ruptsi | Рупци | 5994 | village | 1,237 |
Suhache | Сухаче | 5988 | village | 751 |
Telish | Телиш | 5990 | village | 1,166 |
Cherven Bryag | Червен бряг | 5980 | town, capital |
13,856 |
Chomakovtsi | Чомаковци | 5989 | village | 1208 |
total | 30,524 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Cherven Bryag Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 45,044 | 43,088 | 40,876 | 35,562 | 32,157 | 31,281 | 30,524 | ... |
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |
Religion
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
See also
References
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Official website of Cherven Bryag municipality (in Bulgarian)
- ^ "Municipality Cherven bryag"
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
- ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
- ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.