Ivanovo Municipality


Ivanovo Municipality is a municipality in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Ivanovo.
The municipality covers a territory of with a population of 10,339 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The area is best known with the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other important sights in the municipality include the medieval Bulgarian fortress of Cherven, which reached its apogee in the 13th and 14th centuries and features a well-preserved keep from the 14th century, and the Rusenski Lom Nature Park.
The population is predominantly Bulgarian, with Turkish, Romani and other minorities.
The main road E85 crosses the area from south to north, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo and respectively Pleven and Sofia.
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Settlements

Ivanovo Municipality includes the following 13 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
IvanovoИваново912
BozhichenБожичен175
ChervenЧервен283
KoshovКошов356
KrasenКрасен738
MechkaМечка690
NisovoНисово129
PirgovoПиргово1,949
SvalenikСваленик975
ShtraklevoЩръклево2,510
TabachkaТабачка132
TrastenikТръстениик1,362
TserovetsЦеровец128
Total10,339

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Ivanovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Shtraklevo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: