Byala Municipality, Ruse Province


Byala Municipality is a municipality in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 20 km southeast of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Byala.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 14,962 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The area is crossroads of some of the main directions in the country - road E85, road E83, I-51 and I-52, which connect the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Svishtov and respectively the country capital of Sofia and Shipka pass. Yantra river flows through the area from south to north.

Settlements

Byala Municipality includes the following 11 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
ByalaБяла9,015
BistrentsiБистренци395
BosilkovtsiБосилковци669
BotrovБотров319
DryanovetsДряновец748
KoprivetsКопривец884
Lom CherkovnaЛом Черковна462
Pet KladentsiПет кладенци64
PeychinovoПейчиново343
Polsko KosovoПолско Косово1,686
StarmenСтърмен377
Total14,962

Demography

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

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: