Ruse Province (), or Rusenska Oblast (, former name Ruse okrug) is a

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in northern

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 ...

, named after its main city, Ruse, neighbouring

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via the

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. It is divided into eight municipalities with a total population, as of February 2011, of 235,252 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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, one of only two bridges opened over the Danube, is located in the province. One of the versions of a folk song, inspired by the Ruse blood wedding, can be heard in the province.

Municipalities

The Ruse province (, ''oblast'') contains eight municipalities (, ''obshtina''; plural , ''obshtini''). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and

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, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of December 2009.

Demographics

The Ruse province had a

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of 266,213 (266,157 also given) according to a 2001

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, of which were

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and were

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.Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex
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/ref> As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 249,144 of which are inhabitants aged over 60 years.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009

Ethnic groups

Total population (2011 census): 235 252 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 216,612 persons: *Bulgarians: 176,413 (81,44%) *

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: 28,658 (13,23%) *

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian ...

: 8,615 (3,98%) *Others and indefinable: 2,926 (1,35%) Ethnic groups according to the 2001 census, when 266,157 people of the population of 266,213 of Rousse Province identified themselves (with percentage of total population):Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Ethnic Group
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: 37,050 *

: 9,703

Religion

Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001
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