Glavinitsa Municipality ( bg, Община Главиница) is a municipality ('' obshtina'') in Silistra Province, Northeastern

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, located along the right bank of

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Glavinitsa Glavinitsa ( bg, Главиница, ; also transliterated ''Glavinica'' or ''Glavinitza'') is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Silistra Province. It is the administrative centre of Glavinitsa Municipality, which lies in the southwestern ...

. The municipality embraces a territory of 481.23Characterization of Silistra Province
km² with a population of 12,610 inhabitants, as of December 2009.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute – Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
The main road II-21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of

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with the city of

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Settlements

Glavinitsa Municipality includes the following 23 places all of them villages:

Demography

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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic Turks constitute the majority of the population of Glavinitsa Municipality, followed by a large Bulgarian minority and a small Roma community.

Demographic indicators

The municipality of Glavinitsa is losing many inhabitants. Last decade, the number of births decreased slightly while the number of deaths increased significantly.

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:

References

External links

Official website
{{Silistra Province Municipalities in Silistra Province