Zavet Municipality

Zavet Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Завет) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Zavet.

Zavet Municipality Община Завет
Municipality
Zavet Municipality within Bulgaria and Razgrad Province.
Coordinates: 43°46′N 26°38′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Razgrad
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Zavet
Area
• Total	273.88 km2 (105.75 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	11,338
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 273.88 km² (105.75 sq mi) with a population of 11,338 inhabitants, as of December 2009.^[1]

Settlements

Zavet Municipality within Razgrad Province

Razgrad

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Kubrat

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Isperih

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Zavet

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Loznitsa

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Tsar Kaloyan

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Samuil

Zavet Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Zavet	Завет	3,371
Brestovene	Брестовене	2,874
Ivan Shishmanovo	Иван Шишманово	445
Ostrovo	Острово	2,229
Prelez	Прелез	760
Sushevo	Сушево	669
Veselets	Веселец	990
Total		11,338

Demography

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

Zavet Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	12,672	11,484	13,637	12,333	11,943	11,665	11,338	...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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:

Religious composition of Zavet Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   16.0% Catholicism   0.2% Protestantism   0.3% Islam   67.9% No religion   1.4% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   14.2%

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria