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Zavet Municipality

Zavet Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Завет) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Zavet.

The municipality embraces a territory of 273.88 km (105.75 sq mi) with a population of 11,338 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Zavet Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population
(December 2009)
Zavet Завет 3,371
Brestovene Брестовене 2,874
Ivan Shishmanovo Иван Шишманово 445
Ostrovo Острово 2,229
Prelez Прелез 760
Sushevo Сушево 669
Veselets Веселец 990
Total 11,338

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Zavet Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,672 11,484 13,637 12,333 11,943 11,665 11,338 ...
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:

Religious composition of Zavet Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
16.0%
Catholicism
0.2%
Protestantism
0.3%
Islam
67.9%
No religion
1.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
14.2%

See also