title: Gulyantsi Municipality
text: # Gulyantsi Municipality
  
  Gulyantsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Гулянци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river, by the border with Romania. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Gulyantsi. As of December 2009, the municipality has a total population of 13,561 inhabitants.
  
  The main cultural sight in the municipality are the ruins of the large Ancient Roman city of Ulpia Oescus.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Gulyantsi municipality has an area of 458 square kilometres, of which 70% is arable. The region is flat, with elevation ranging from 30 to 50 metres above sea level. The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, between river kilometres 604 and 639.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Gulyantsi | Гулянци | 3,432 |
  | Brest | Брест | 2,235 |
  | Gigen | Гиген | 2,192 |
  | Iskar | Искър | 362 |
  | Dolni Vit | Долни Вит | 519 |
  | Dabovan | Дъбован | 571 |
  | Zagrazhden | Загражден | 474 |
  | Kreta | Крета | 331 |
  | Lenkovo | Ленково | 451 |
  | Milkovitsa | Милковица | 1,889 |
  | Somovit | Сомовит | 721 |
  | Shiyakovo | Шияково | 384 |
  | Total | | 13,561 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Gulyantsi Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 25,588 | 22,203 | 20,135 | 16,752 | 15,007 | 14,294 | 13,561 | ... |
  | 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 Gulyantsi Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  88.8%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.5%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.3%
  
  Islam
  
  0.8%
  
  No religion
  
  4.5%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
  
  5.1% :
  
  