title: Dryanovo Municipality
text: # Dryanovo Municipality
  
  Dryanovo (or Drjanovo) Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Дряново) is a municipality (obshtina) in Gabrovo Province, North-central Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan between Stara planina mountain and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dryanovo.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 248.5 $km^2$ (95.9 sq mi) with a population of 9,587 inhabitants, as of December 2011.
  
  The area is best known with the Dryanovo Monastery, situated close to the main town, and Bacho Kiro Cave.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Dryanovo Municipality includes the following 46 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Dryanovo | Дряново | 8,043 |
  | Balvantsite | Балванците | 1 |
  | Buchukovtsi | Бучуковци | 8 |
  | Chukovo | Чуково | 26 |
  | Denchevtsi | Денчевци | 21 |
  | Dlagnya | Длъгня | 24 |
  | Dobrenite | Добрените | 4 |
  | Dolni Varpishta | Долни Върпища | 3 |
  | Dolni Dragoycha | Долни Драгойча | 3 |
  | Docha | Доча | 10 |
  | Ganchovets | Ганчовец | 159 |
  | Gesha | Геша | 7 |
  | Glushka | Глушка | 26 |
  | Gozdeyka | Гоздейка | 22 |
  | Golemi Balgareni | Големи Българени | 10 |
  | Gorni Varpishta | Горни Върпища | 4 |
  | Gostilitsa | Гостилица | 347 |
  | Garnya | Гърня | 3 |
  | Ignatovtsi | Игнатовци | 2 |
  | Iskra | Искра | 4 |
  | Kalomen | Каломен | 9 |
  | Karaivantsa | Караиванца | 43 |
  | Katrandzhii | Катранджии | 42 |
  | Kereka | Керека | 142 |
  | Kosarka | Косарка | 44 |
  | Kumanite | Куманите | 4 |
  | Malki Balgareni | Малки Българени | 0 |
  | Manoya | Маноя | 48 |
  | Peyna | Пейна | 9 |
  | Petkovtsi | Петковци | 3 |
  | Plachka | Плачка | 2 |
  | Radovtsi | Радовци | 137 |
  | Ritya | Ритя | 0 |
  | Runya | Руня | 32 |
  | Rusinovtsi | Русиновци | 10 |
  | Salasuka | Саласука | 4 |
  | Skalsko | Скалско | 96 |
  | Slaveykovo | Славейково | 65 |
  | Sokolovo | Соколово | 52 |
  | Syarovtsi | Сяровци | 6 |
  | Shushnya | Шушня | 2 |
  | Turkincha | Туркинча | 26 |
  | Tsareva Livada | Царева ливада | 789 |
  | Yantra | Янтра | 139 |
  | Zaya | Зая | 43 |
  | Total | | 10,502 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Dryanovo Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 16,966 | 15,525 | 13,557 | 11,705 | 11,009 | 10,724 | 10,502 | 9,587 |
  | Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||
  
  ### 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 Dryanovo Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  80.2%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.4%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.8%
  
  Islam
  
  2.8%
  
  No religion
  
  7.6%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  8.2% :
  
  