title: Strazhitsa Municipality
text: # Strazhitsa Municipality
  
  Strazhitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Стражица) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, north-central 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 has an area of 512 $km^2$ (198 sq mi) and 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 (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Strazhitsa | Стражица | 5,170 |
  | Asenovo | Асеново | 705 |
  | Balkantsi | Балканци | 159 |
  | Blagoevo | Благоево | 449 |
  | Bryagovitsa | Бряговица | 500 |
  | Gorski Senovets | Горски Сеновец | 358 |
  | Kavlak | Кавлак | 79 |
  | Kamen | Камен | 1,651 |
  | Kesarevo | Кесарево | 1,608 |
  | Lozen | Лозен | 456 |
  | Lyubentsi | Любенци | 8 |
  | Mirovo | Мирово | 178 |
  | Nikolaevo | Николаево | 125 |
  | Nova Varbovka | Нова Върбовка | 319 |
  | Novo Gradishte | Ново градище | 145 |
  | Sushitsa | Сушица | 866 |
  | Temenuga | Теменуга | 30 |
  | Tsarski Izvor | Царски извор | 821 |
  | Vinograd | Виноград | 773 |
  | Vladislav | Владислав | 295 |
  | Vodno | Водно | 11 |
  | Zhelezartsi | Железарци | 36 |
  | Total | | 14,742 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Strazhitsa Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 23,750 | 20,542 | 18,534 | 16,504 | 15,723 | 15,214 | 14,742 | ... |
  | Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||
  