Lovech Province

Coordinates: 43°0′N 24°30′E / 43.000°N 24.500°E / 43.000; 24.500

Province in Bulgaria

Lovech Province Oбласт Ловеч
Province
Location of Lovech Province in Bulgaria
Country	Bulgaria
Capital	Lovech
Municipalities	8
Government
• Governor	Georgi Terziyski
Area
• Total	4,128 km2 (1,594 sq mi)
Population (February 2011)
• Total	141,422
• Density	34/km2 (89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
License plate	OB
Website	oblastlovech.org

Lovech

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Apriltsi

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Troyan

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Teteven

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Lukovit

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Ugarchin

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Letnitsa

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Yablanitsa

Municipalities within Lovech Province with their main towns

Lovech Province (Bulgarian: Област Ловеч, transliterated Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.^[1][2][3]

Contents

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  1 Municipalities
  


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  2 Population
  
  
  
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    2.1 Ethnic groups
    
  
  
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    2.2 Language
    
  
  
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    2.3 Religion
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 See also
  

Municipalities

The Lovech province (област, oblast) contains eight municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.

Municipality	Cyrillic	Pop.[1][2][3]	Town/Village	Pop.[4][2][5]
Apriltsi	Априлци	3,554	Apriltsi	3,207
Letnitsa	Летница	5,101	Letnitsa	3,739
Lovech	Ловеч	53,578	Lovech	38,579
Lukovit	Луковит	19,469	Lukovit	9,630
Teteven	Тетевен	22,016	Teteven	10,613
Troyan	Троян	33,827	Troyan	21,997
Ugarchin	Угърчин	7,181	Ugarchin	2,832
Yablanitsa	Ябланица	6,427	Yablanitsa	2,896

Population

Building of Lovech Province administration

The Lovech province had a population of 169,951 according to a 2001 census, of which 7001491000000000000♠49.1% were male and 7001509000000000000♠50.9% were female.^[6]
As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153^[1] of which 7001294000000000000♠29.4% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.^[7]

The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:

Lovech Province
Year	1946	1956	1965	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	217,203	214,213	217,342	216,844	202,968	190,262	169,951	160,202	156,437	151,153	141 422
Sources: National Statistical Institute,[1] „Census 2001“,[2] „Census 2011“,[3] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,??

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in Lovech Province (2011 census)
Ethnic group			Percentage
Bulgarians			90.9%
Romani			4.4%
Turks			3.3%
others and indefinable			1.4%

Lovech's ruined fortress.

The Glozhene Monastery near Teteven.

Total population (2011 census): 141 422

Ethnic groups (2011 census):^[8]
Identified themselves: 130 180 persons:

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  Bulgarians: 118 346 (90,91%)


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  Romani: 5 705 (4,38%)


• 
  Turks: 4 337 (3,33%)


• Others and indefinable: 1 792 (1,38%)

A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census

In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):^[9]

Ethnic group	Population	Percentage
Bulgarians	152,194	7001895520000000000♠89.552%
Turkish	8,476	7000498700000000000♠4.987%
Romani	6,316	7000371600000000000♠3.716%
Russians	269	6999158000000000000♠0.158%
Armenians	12	6997700000000000000♠0.007%
Vlachs	458	6999269000000000000♠0.269%
Macedonians	7	6997400000000000000♠0.004%
Greeks	21	6998120000000000000♠0.012%
Ukrainians	29	6998170000000000000♠0.017%
Jewish	1	6997100000000000000♠0.001%
Romanians	3	6997200000000000000♠0.002%
Other	91	6998540000000000000♠0.054%

Language

In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population):
154,157 Bulgarian (7001907000000000000♠90.7%),
6,994 Turkish (7000410009999999999♠4.1%),
6,033 Romani (7000350000000000000♠3.5%),
and 1,123 other (6999700000000000000♠0.7%).^[10]

Religion

Religions in Lovech Province (2011 census)[11]
Religious group			Percentage
Orthodox Christian			59.75%
Muslim			2.3%
Protestant Christian			0.9%
Roman Catholic Christian			0.5%
others and indefinable			36.46%

Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:^[12]

Census 2001
religious adherence	population	%
Orthodox Christians	146,778	86.36%
Muslims	10,501	6.18%
Protestants	879	0.52%
Roman Catholics	366	0.22%
Other	688	0.40%
Religion not mentioned	10,739	6.32%
total	169,951	100%

References

1. 
   ^ ^abcd (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine.
   


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   ^ ^abcd (in English) „WorldCityPopulation“
   


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   ^ ^abc „pop-stat.mashke.org“
   


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   ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine.
   


5. 
   ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
   


6. 
   ^ (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
   


7. 
   ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009 Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine.
   


8. 
   ^ Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute Archived 2013-04-05 at WebCite (in Bulgarian)
   


9. 
   ^ (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Ethnic Group from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
   


10. 
    ^ (in Bulgarian) Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Mother Tongue from Bulgarian National Statistical Institute: Census 2001
    


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12. 
    ^ (in Bulgarian) Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001
    

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria


• Municipalities of Bulgaria


• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria


• List of villages in Lovech Province

Places adjacent to Lovech Province
Vratsa Province Pleven Province Veliko Tarnovo Province Sofia Province Lovech Province Gabrovo Province Plovdiv Province Stara Zagora Province

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