Yablanitsa Municipality


Yablanitsa Municipality is a small municipality in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan, north of Stara Planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Yablanitsa.
The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km² with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
As of 2010, the west operating part of Hemus motorway ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Yablanitsa Municipality includes the following 9 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
YablanitsaЯбланица2,896
BatultsiБатулци205
BrestnitsaБрестница1,062
DobrevtsiДобревци547
DabravataДъбравата88
Golyama BrestnitsaГоляма Брестница182
Malak IzvorМалък извор243
OresheneОрешене332
Zlatna PanegaЗлатна Панега872
Total6,427

Demography

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

Vital statistics

The municipality of Yablanitsa has one of the highest birth rate in Bulgaria. Especially Roma people tend to have high fertility rates.

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: