Tervel Municipality
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Tervel Municipality Община Тервел |
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| Municipality | |
 Tervel Municipality within Bulgaria and Dobrich Province. |
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| Coordinates: 43°44′N 27°21′E / 43.733°N 27.350°ECoordinates: 43°44′N 27°21′E / 43.733°N 27.350°E | |
| Country |
 Bulgaria
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| Province (Oblast) | Dobrich |
| Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Tervel |
| Area | |
| • Total | 579.7 km2 (223.8 sq mi) |
| Population (December 2009) | |
| • Total | 17,458 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Tervel Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тервел) is a municipality (obshtina) 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.
Tervel Municipality includes the following 26 places; all of them are villages:
The municipality has a mixed population consisting mostly of Bulgarians (45.8% according to 2001 census data), Turks (40.7%) and Romani (12.9%).
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
References1.^ a b c (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 2.^ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 3.^ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009 4.^ (English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009 5.^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001 6.^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
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