Cherven Bryag Municipality

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Cherven Bryag Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, northwestern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Cherven Bryag.[1] With a population of 30,524, as of December 2009,[2] it is the second largest municipality in the province.[3]

The municipality is located by the right side of the Iskar River, close to the inlet of Zlatna Panega River. It has area of Template:Cvt.[1]

It borders with Lukovit, Roman, Dolni Dabnik, Iskar, Knezha and Byala Slatina municipalities. The Sofia - Rousse highway and Sofia-Varna railroad pass through municipality.[3]

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.[3]

Settlements

Settlement Cyrillic Postal code[3] Status Population[4][5][6]
(December 2009)
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.

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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 Cherven Bryag Municipality [7]
Orthodox Christianity
79.7%
Catholicism
0.6%
Protestantism
1.4%
Islam
0.6%
No religion
9.3%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
8.4%

See also

References

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