Tervel Municipality


Tervel Municipality is a municipality in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region, about 30 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tervel.
The municipality embraces a territory of 579.7 km² with a population of 17,458 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
More significant tourist sights in the area include the early Byzantine cave monasteries around the villages of Balik and Brestnitsa dating to the 5th-6th century.

Settlements

Tervel Municipality includes the following 26 places; all of them are villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
TervelТервел6667
AngelariyАнгеларий145
BalikБалик261
BezmerБезмер1229
Bozhan Божан598
BonevoБонево82
Brestnitsa, Dobrich ProvinceБрестница16
ChestimenskoЧестименско412
GlavantsiГлаванци131
Gradnitsa, Dobrich ProvinceГрадница405
GuslarГуслар24
KableshkovoКаблешково575
Kladentsi, Dobrich ProvinceКладенци173
KolartsiКоларци688
KochmarКочмар301
Mali izvorМали извор39
Nova KamenaНова Камена482
OnogurОногур39
Orlyak, Dobrich ProvinceОрляк1922
Polkovnik SavovoПолковник Савово188
PopgruevoПопгруево680
Profesor ZlatarskiПрофесор Златарски33
SurnetsСърнец209
VoynikovoВойниково11
ZarnevoЗърнево1222
ZheglartsiЖегларци926
Total17,458

Demography

The municipality has a mixed population consisting mostly of Bulgarians, Turks and Romani.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

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: