Tutrakan Municipality

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Tutrakan Municipality

| native_name = Община Тутракан

| settlement_type = Municipality

| image_shield =

| image_map = Tutrakan Municipality Within Bulgaria.png

| map_caption = Tutrakan Municipality within Bulgaria and Silistra Province.

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{BUL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Province {{smaller|(Oblast)}}

| subdivision_name1 = Silistra

| subdivision_type2 = Admin. centre {{smaller|(Obshtinski tsentar)}}

| subdivision_name2 = Tutrakan

| timezone = EET

| utc_offset = +2

| timezone_DST = EEST

| utc_offset_DST = +3

| coordinates = {{coord|43|59|N|26|34|E|region:BG|display=inline,title}}

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 448.35

|population_footnotes =

|population_as_of = December 2009

|population_total = 16,920

| population_density_km2 = auto

| website =

}}

Tutrakan Municipality ({{langx|bg|Община Тутракан}}) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tutrakan.

The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35{{in lang|bg}}[http://www.ss.government.bg/uploaded_images/Haracteristica.pdf Characterization of Silistra Province] km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1585#cont Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009]

The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

Settlements

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{{Image label small|x=0.35|y=0.46|scale=100|text=Tutrakan}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.35|y=1.05|scale=100|text=Dulovo}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.70|y=0.71|scale=100|text=Alfatar}}

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{{Image label small|x=0.82|y=0.78|scale=100|text=Glavinitsa}}

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{{Image label small|x=2.03|y=0.62|scale=100|text=Kaynardzha}}

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{{Image label small|x=1.22|y=0.52|scale=100|text=Sitovo}}

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Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places (towns are shown in bold):

class="wikitable sortable"

! Town/Village

! Cyrillic

! Population{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/otrasalen.php?otr=53&a1=1583&a2=1584&a3=1588#cont Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009]{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/index.php?ezik=en&f=8&s=1&date=29.12.2010&e=1&s1=4&c1=2&a1=1000&c=0 Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009]{{in lang|en}} [http://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/index.php?ezik=en&f=8&s=1&date=29.12.2010&e=1&s1=4&c1=3&a1=1000&c=1&s2=4&c2=2&a2=5000 Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009]
(December 2009)

Tutrakan

| Тутракан

| align="center" | 9,476

Antimovo

| Антимово

| align="center" | 60

Belitsa

| Белица

| align="center" | 612

Brenitsa

| Бреница

| align="center" | 234

Dunavets

| Дунавец

| align="center" | 20

Nova Cherna

| Нова Черна

| align="center" | 1,763

Pozharevo

| Пожарево

| align="center" | 129

Preslavtsi

| Преславци

| align="center" | 574

Staro Selo

| Старо село

| align="center" | 997

Shumentsi

| Шуменци

| align="center" | 548

Syanovo

| Сяново

| align="center" | 112

Tarnovtsi

| Търновци

| align="center" | 447

Tsar Samuil

| Цар Самуил

| align="center" | 1,486

Tsarev Dol

| Царев дол

| align="center" | 81

Varnentsi

| Варненци

| align="center" | 381

Total

!

! align="center" | 16,920

Demography

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

{{Table BG Municipality population

| municipality = Tutrakan

| 1975 = 24,698

| 1985 = 23,439

| 1992 = 21,774

| 2001 = 19,309

| 2005 = 17,922

| 2007 = 17,419

| 2009 = 16,920

| 2011 = ...

| ref 1 = {{in lang|bg}}[http://statlib.nsi.bg:8181/isisbgstat/ssp/lister.asp?content=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_P*.pdf&from=1&to=282&index=&cont=/Fullt/extpages/DN_21_2_1992_1994/DN_21_2_1992_1994_content.pdf&type=%F1%F2%F0%E0%ED%E8%F6%E8 National Statistical Institute - Municipalities population 1992]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}

| ref 2 = {{in lang|en}}[http://www.nsi.bg/Census_e/Census_e.htm National Statistical Institute - Census 2001]

| ref 3 = [http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-division.htm „pop-stat.mashke.org“]

}}

= Ethnic groups =

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Tutrakan Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people.

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| title=Ethnic groups in Tutrakan Municipality (2011 census)

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| left1=Ethnic group

| right1=Percentage

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| bars=

{{bar percent|Bulgarians|#00966E|67.3}}

{{bar percent|Turks|red|26.7}}

{{bar percent|Roma|brown|5.1}}

{{bar percent|others and indefinable|purple|0.9}}

}}

==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:

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|title=Religious composition of Tutrakan Municipality {{cite web|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/bulgaria-religion2011.htm|title=Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011|website=pop-stat.mashke.org}}

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{{bar percent|Orthodox Christianity|blue|61.7}}

{{bar percent|Catholicism|purple|0.4}}

{{bar percent|Protestantism|yellow|0.6}}

{{bar percent|Islam|green|23.6}}

{{bar percent|No religion|red|3.6}}

{{bar percent|Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable|gray|10.1}}

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See also

References