Shumen Province ( bg, Област Шумен,

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''Oblast Shumen'', former name Shumen okrug) is a

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in northeastern

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named after its main city

Shumen Shumen ( bg, Шумен, also romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the tenth largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province. Etymology The city was first mentioned as ''Šimeonis'' in 1153 by ...

. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 194,090 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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The Main City

The city of Shumen is famous in the region for the

Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria The Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria ( bg, Паметник 1300 години България), also known as the Founders of the Bulgarian State Monument (Паметник на създателите на Българската държава) ...

. The monument is in the

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style and is 1300 steps (each step representing a year) above the center of the town. Other places of note are the Shumen fortress,

Tombul Mosque The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque, ( bg, Томбул джамия tr, Tombul Camii), more commonly known as the Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque, located in Shumen, is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and one of the largest in the Balkans. History Buil ...

, and Shumen Plato National park. The center of the town has a historical museum, large library, and large theater. The municipality building, also in the center, has a concert hall that features regular symphony performances. Shumen is also the location of the

Shumensko Shumensko is a Bulgarian beer brand ( bg, Шуменско пиво) from the town of Shumen. The brewery was founded in 1882 by merchants from Shumen and the Czech master brewer Franz Milde, who arrived in September and founded the Bulgarian B ...

Brewery, a popular beer in Bulgaria. The area surrounding Shumen plays a significant part in Bulgarian History with the first and second capitols of historical Bulgaria within thirty kilometers from the city.

Municipalities

The Shumen Province contains 10 municipalities (singular: община, ''obshtina'' - plural: общини, ''obshtini''). The following table shows each municipality's name in English and Cyrillic, main town (in bold) or village, and population as of December 2009.

Population

The Shumen province had a

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of 204,395 (204,378 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 194,090 of which are inhabitants aged over 60 years.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after

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Ethnic groups

Total population (2011 census): 180,528 By self-identified ethnicity (167,952 people): *

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: 99,446 (59.21%) *

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...

: 50,878 (30.29%) *

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

: 13,847 (8.24%) *Others and indefinable: 3,781 (2.25%) A further 12,000 people did not declare their ethnic group. Self-identified ethnic group according to the 2001 census (204,378 people out of the total population of 204,395, with percentage of total population):Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Ethnic Group
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: 123,084 (60.22%) *

: 59,551 (29.14%) *

: 16,457 (8.05%)

Religion

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

Shumen lies on the main route between Varna and

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and is served by numerous trains and buses serving the city.

References

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