title: Dolni Dabnik Municipality
text: # Dolni Dabnik Municipality
  
  Dolni Dabnik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долни Дъбник) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dolni Dabnik.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 310 $km^2$ (120 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,438 inhabitants.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Dolni Dabnik | Долни Дъбник | 4,761 |
  | Barkach | Бъркач | 760 |
  | Gorni Dabnik | Горни Дъбник | 1,914 |
  | Gradina | Градина | 842 |
  | Krushovitsa | Крушовица | 2,051 |
  | Petarnitsa | Петърница | 1,720 |
  | Sadovets | Садовец | 2,390 |
  | Total | | 14,438 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Dolni Dabnik Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 21,653 | 18,644 | 17,377 | 15,701 | 15,137 | 14,810 | 14,438 | ... |
  | 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 Dolni Dabnik Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  74.8%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.5%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.6%
  
  Islam
  
  4.2%
  
  No religion
  
  12.7%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  6.2% :
  
  