# Glavinitsa Municipality

Glavinitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Главиница) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Glavinitsa.
The municipality embraces a territory of 481.23 km$^2$ (185.80 sq mi) with a population of 12,610 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road II-21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

## Settlements

Glavinitsa Municipality includes the following 23 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| Glavinitsa | Главиница | 1,928 |
| Bashtino | Бащино | 167 |
| Bogdantsi | Богданци | 699 |
| Chernogor | Черногор | 451 |
| Dichevo | Дичево | 471 |
| Dolno Ryahovo | Долно Ряхово | 405 |
| Kalugerene | Калугерене | 551 |
| Kolarovo | Коларово | 369 |
| Kosara | Косара | 213 |
| Listets | Листец | 583 |
| Malak Preslavets | Малък Преславец | 365 |
| Nozharevo | Ножарево | 572 |
| Osen | Осен | 144 |
| Padina | Падина | 415 |
| Podles | Подлес | 187 |
| Sokol | Сокол | 353 |
| Kosara | Стефан Караджа | 1,031 |
| Suhodol | Суходол | 775 |
| Valkan | Вълкан | 383 |
| Zaritsa | Зарица | 446 |
| Zafirovo | Зафирово | 933 |
| Zvenimir | Звенимир | 454 |
| Zebil | Зебил | 715 |
| Total | | 12,610 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Glavinitsa Municipality has comprised the former municipality of General Zafirovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
Glavinitsa Municipality :
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 10,230 | 9,930 | 15,579 | 13,848 | 13,298 | 12,959 | 12,610 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic Turks constitute the majority of the population of Glavinitsa Municipality, followed by a large Bulgarian minority and a small Roma community.
Ethnic groups in Glavinitsa Municipality (2011 census) :
| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 29.2% | 29.2% |
| Turks | Turks | 68.0% | 68.0% |
| Roma | Roma | 2.2% | 2.2% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 0.6% | 0.6% |

### Demographic indicators

The municipality of Glavinitsa is losing many inhabitants. Last decade, the number of births decreased slightly while the number of deaths increased significantly.
| | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) |
| 2000 | 14,662 | 126 | 203 | −77 | 8.6 | 13.8 | −5.3 |
| 2001 | 13,743 | 126 | 201 | −75 | 9.2 | 14.6 | −5.5 |
| 2002 | 13,693 | 114 | 244 | −130 | 8.3 | 17.8 | −9.5 |
| 2003 | 13,564 | 118 | 201 | −83 | 8.7 | 14.8 | −6.1 |
| 2004 | 13,400 | 91 | 184 | −93 | 6.8 | 13.7 | −6.9 |
| 2005 | 13,298 | 110 | 193 | −83 | 8.3 | 14.5 | −6.2 |
| 2006 | 13,077 | 93 | 201 | −108 | 7.1 | 15.4 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 12,959 | 122 | 203 | −81 | 9.4 | 15.7 | −6.3 |
| 2008 | 12,767 | 116 | 209 | −93 | 9.1 | 16.4 | −7.3 |
| 2009 | 12,610 | 122 | 162 | −40 | 9.7 | 12.8 | −3.2 |
| 2010 | 12,445 | 98 | 184 | −86 | 7.9 | 14.8 | −6.9 |
| 2011 | 10,797 | 95 | 198 | −103 | 8.8 | 18.3 | −9.5 |
| 2012 | 10,642 | 96 | 208 | −112 | 9.0 | 19.5 | −10.5 |
| 2013 | 10,553 | 103 | 171 | −68 | 9.8 | 16.2 | −6.4 |
| 2014 | 10,407 | 93 | 202 | −109 | 8.9 | 19.4 | −10.5 |
| 2015 | 10,360 | 98 | 197 | 99 | 9.5 | 19.0 | −9.6 |
| 2016 | 10,243 | 91 | 166 | −75 | 8.9 | 16.2 | −7.3 |
| 2017 | 10,085 | 82 | 169 | −87 | 8.1 | 16.8 | −8.6 |
| 2018 | 9,897 | 73 | 206 | -133 | 7.4 | 20.8 | -13.4 |

### 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 Glavinitsa Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
27.2%
Catholicism
0.4%
Protestantism
0.2%
Islam
70.1%
No religion
0.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
1.7% :