title: Teteven Municipality
text: # Teteven Municipality
  
  Teteven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Тетевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located from the northern slopes of the central Stara planina mountain to the area of the Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Teteven.
  
  The municipality embraces a territory of 697 $km^2$ (269 sq mi) with a population of 22,016 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
  
  The main road E772 crosses the area through the northernmost parts of the municipality.
  
  ## Settlements
  
  Teteven Municipality includes the following 13 places (towns are shown in bold):
  
  | Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Teteven | Тетевен | 10,613 |
  | Babintsi | Бабинци | 272 |
  | Balgarski Izvor | Български извор | 1,304 |
  | Cherni Vit | Черни Вит | 722 |
  | Divchovoto | Дивчовото | 187 |
  | Galata | Галата | 2,532 |
  | Glogovo | Глогово | 1,472 |
  | Glozhene | Гложене | 1,059 |
  | Golyam Izvor | Голям извор | 529 |
  | Gradezhnitsa | Градежница | 1,789 |
  | Malka Zhelyazna | Малка Желязна | 144 |
  | Ribaritsa | Рибарица | 1,137 |
  | Vasilyovo | Васильово | 256 |
  | Total | | 22,016 |
  
  ## Demography
  
  The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
  
  Teteven Municipality :
  
  | Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 26,661 | 26,689 | 25,952 | 23,768 | 22,715 | 22,266 | 22,016 | ... |
  | 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 Teteven Municipality
  
  Orthodox Christianity
  
  62.6%
  
  Catholicism
  
  0.4%
  
  Protestantism
  
  0.3%
  
  Islam
  
  2.4%
  
  No religion
  
  17.1%
  
  Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable
  
  17.2% :
  
  