title: Sevlievo Municipality
text: # Sevlievo Municipality
  
  Sevlievo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Севлиево) 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 Sevlievo.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 1,040 $km^2$ (400 sq mi) with a population of 39,537 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  The area is best known with the Batoshevski Monastery, situated close to Batoshevo village.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Sevlievo Municipality includes the following 50 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Sevlievo | Севлиево | 24,065 |
  | Agatovo | Агатово | 442 |
  | Batoshevo | Батошево | 706 |
  | Berievo | Бериево | 369 |
  | Boazat | Боазът | 57 |
  | Bogatovo | Богатово | 422 |
  | Burya | Буря | 265 |
  | Balgari | Българи | 8 |
  | Damyanovo | Дамяново | 556 |
  | Debeltsovo | Дебелцово | 2 |
  | Dismanitsa | Дисманица | 7 |
  | Dobromirka | Добромирка | 677 |
  | Dushevo | Душево | 1,024 |
  | Dushevski kolibi | Душевски колиби | 23 |
  | Dyalak | Дялък | 7 |
  | Enev rat | Енев рът | 19 |
  | Gorna Rositsa | Горна Росица | 642 |
  | Gradishte | Градище | 209 |
  | Gradnitsa | Градница | 1,246 |
  | Hirevo | Хирево | 192 |
  | Idilevo | Идилево | 176 |
  | Karamichevtsi | Карамичевци | 45 |
  | Kastel | Кастел | 54 |
  | Koriyata | Корията | 12 |
  | Kormyansko | Кормянско | 705 |
  | Kramolin | Крамолин | 493 |
  | Krushevo | Крушево | 596 |
  | Kravenik | Кръвеник | 181 |
  | Kupen | Купен | 31 |
  | Lovnidol | Ловнидол | 345 |
  | Malinovo | Малиново | 0 |
  | Malki Varshets | Малки Вършец | 241 |
  | Marinovtsi | Мариновци | 38 |
  | Mladen | Младен | 205 |
  | Mlechevo | Млечево | 100 |
  | Petko Slaveykov | Петко Славейков | 1,240 |
  | Popska | Попска | 38 |
  | Ryahovtsite | Ряховците | 1,421 |
  | Selishte | Селище | 142 |
  | Sennik | Сенник | 791 |
  | Shopite | Шопите | 34 |
  | Shumata | Шумата | 674 |
  | Stokite | Стоките | 265 |
  | Stolat | Столът | 332 |
  | Tabashka | Табашка | 60 |
  | Tumbalovo | Тумбалово | 82 |
  | Tarhovo | Търхово | 123 |
  | Ugorelets | Угорелец | 49 |
  | Valevtsi | Валевци | 22 |
  | Voynishka | Войнишка | 62 |
  | Total | | 39,537 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Sevlievo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Gradnitsa and Stokite and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
  
  Sevlievo Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 42,625 | 41,708 | 47,647 | 43,105 | 40,989 | 40,370 | 39,537 | ... |
  | 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 Sevlievo Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  73.1%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.5%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.6%
  
  Islam
  
  12.5%
  
  No religion
  
  3.8%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  9.5% :
  
  