Strazhitsa Municipality


Strazhitsa Municipality is a municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located mostly in the Danubian Plain but also covering parts of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Strazhitsa.
The municipality embraces a territory of 512 km² with a population of 14,742 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area, connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

Settlements

Strazhitsa Municipality includes the following 22 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
StrazhitsaСтражица5,170
AsenovoАсеново705
BalkantsiБалканци159
BlagoevoБлагоево449
BryagovitsaБряговица500
Gorski SenovetsГорски Сеновец358
KavlakКавлак79
KamenКамен1,651
KesarevoКесарево1,608
LozenЛозен456
LyubentsiЛюбенци8
MirovoМирово178
NikolaevoНиколаево125
Nova VarbovkaНова Върбовка319
Novo GradishteНово градище145
SushitsaСушица866
TemenugaТеменуга30
Tsarski IzvorЦарски извор821
VinogradВиноград773
VladislavВладислав295
VodnoВодно11
ZhelezartsiЖелезарци36
Total14,742

Demography

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