Maritsa Municipality ( obshtina) is located in the

Plovdiv Province Plovdiv Province (: ''Oblast Plovdiv'', former name okrug, Plovdiv okrug) is a provinces of Bulgaria, province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities (общини, ''obshtini'', sing. общинa, ''obshtina'') on a territ ...

, southern

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

on the northern bank of the

Maritsa River Maritsa or Maritza ( ), also known as Evros ( ) and Meriç ( ), is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe. With a length of ,

. It has 30,676 inhabitants and consists only of

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

s. The municipality has thriving industry with around €400 000 000 investedИнвестициите в Община Марица достигнаха 400 млн. евро
/ref> in the recent years. Its administrative center is

Plovdiv Plovdiv (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, second-largest city in Bulgaria, 144 km (93 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 490,983 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is a cultural hub ...

but the city is not part of the municipality.

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:

Villages in the Maritsa municipality

* Benkovski *

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* Graf Ignatievo * Kalekovets * Kostievo * Krislovo *

Manole Manole is a Romanian language, Romanian name, used as both a given name and a surname. People with the given name include: * Manole Aldescu * Manole Marcus People with the surname include: * Laurențiu Manole * Leonard Manole * Mădălina Manole ...

* Manolsko Konare * Radinovo * Rogosh * Skutare * Stroevo * Trilistnik * Trud * Tsaratsovo * Voivodinovo * Voisil * Yasno Pole * Zhelyazno

Footnotes

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