title: Tutrakan Municipality
text: # Tutrakan Municipality
  
  Tutrakan Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тутракан) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Tutrakan.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 448.35 km² with a population of 16,920 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  The main road 21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Tutrakan Municipality includes the following 15 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Tutrakan | Тутракан | 9,476 |
  | Antimovo | Антимово | 60 |
  | Belitsa | Белица | 612 |
  | Brenitsa | Бреница | 234 |
  | Dunavets | Дунавец | 20 |
  | Nova Cherna | Нова Черна | 1,763 |
  | Pozharevo | Пожарево | 129 |
  | Preslavtsi | Преславци | 574 |
  | Staro Selo | Старо село | 997 |
  | Shumentsi | Шуменци | 548 |
  | Syanovo | Сяново | 112 |
  | Tarnovtsi | Търновци | 447 |
  | Tsar Samuil | Цар Самуил | 1,486 |
  | Tsarev Dol | Царев дол | 81 |
  | Varnentsi | Варненци | 381 |
  | Total | | 16,920 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Tutrakan Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 24,698 | 23,439 | 21,774 | 19,309 | 17,922 | 17,419 | 16,920 | ... |
  | Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||
  
  ### Ethnic groups
  
  Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in Tutrakan Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people.
  
  Ethnic groups in Tutrakan Municipality (2011 census) :
  
  | Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 67.3% | 67.3% |
  | Turks | Turks | 26.7% | 26.7% |
  | Roma | Roma | 5.1% | 5.1% |
  | others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 0.9% | 0.9% |
  
  **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 Tutrakan Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  61.7%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.4%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.6%
  
  Islam
  
  23.6%
  
  No religion
  
  3.6%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  10.1% :
  
  