title: Isperih Municipality
text: # Isperih Municipality
  
  Isperih Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Исперих) is a municipality (obshtina) in Razgrad Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Isperih.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 402 $km^2$ (155 sq mi) with a population of 22,916 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  The area is best known with the 3rd century BC Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari near the village of the same name.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Isperih Municipality includes the following 24 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Isperih | Исперих | 9,017 |
  | Belintsi | Белинци | 480 |
  | Bardokva | Бърдоква | 289 |
  | Delchevo | Делчево | 450 |
  | Dragomazh | Драгомъж | 355 |
  | Duhovets | Духовец | 542 |
  | Golyam Porovets | Голям Поровец | 628 |
  | Kitanchevo | Китанчево | 1,549 |
  | Konevo | Конево | 131 |
  | Kapinovtsi | Къпиновци | 211 |
  | Ludogortsi | Лудогорци | 849 |
  | Lavino | Лъвино | 1,066 |
  | Malko Yonkovo | Малко Йонково | 380 |
  | Malak Porovets | Малък Поровец | 388 |
  | Pechenitsa | Печеница | 299 |
  | Podayva | Подайва | 1,566 |
  | Raynino | Райнино | 550 |
  | Sveshtari | Свещари | 632 |
  | Sredoseltsi | Средоселци | 321 |
  | Staro Selishte | Старо селище | 367 |
  | Todorovo | Тодорово | 757 |
  | Vazovo | Вазово | 986 |
  | Yakim Gruevo | Яким Груево | 277 |
  | Yonkovo | Йонково | 826 |
  | Total | | 22,916 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Isperih Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 35,838 | 34,902 | 27,936 | 25,287 | 24,141 | 23,601 | 22,916 | ... |
  | 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 Isperih Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  26.7%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.2%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.1%
  
  Islam
  
  67.0%
  
  No religion
  
  1.1%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  4.9% :
  
  