title: Knezha Municipality
text: # Knezha Municipality
  
  Knezha Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кнежа) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Knezha.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 317.83 $km^2$ with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,839 inhabitants.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Knezha | Кнежа | 11,191 |
  | Brenitsa | Бреница | 2,039 |
  | Enitsa | Еница | 1,098 |
  | Lazarovo | Лазарово | 511 |
  | Total | | 14,839 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Knezha Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 22,031 | 20,329 | 18,640 | 17,079 | 15,932 | 15,372 | 14,839 | ... |
  | 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 Knezha Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  79.8%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.9%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.6%
  
  Islam
  
  0.5%
  
  No religion
  
  9.9%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  8.4% :
  
  