# Nikola Kozlevo Municipality

Nikola Kozlevo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Никола Козлево) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Nikola Kozlevo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 265 km$^2$ (102 sq mi) with a population of 6,381 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

Nikola Kozlevo Municipality includes the following 11 places, all of them are villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| Nikola Kozlevo | Никола Козлево | 789 |
| Harsovo | Хърсово | 370 |
| Karavelovo | Каравелово | 357 |
| Krasen Dol | Красен дол | 143 |
| Kriva Reka | Крива река | 485 |
| Pet Mogili | Пет могили | 1,097 |
| Ruzhitsa | Ружица | 320 |
| Tsani Ginchevo | Цани Гинчево | 419 |
| Tsarkvitsa | Църквица | 629 |
| Vekilski | Векилски | 94 |
| Valnari | Вълнари | 1,678 |
| Total | | 6,381 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Nikola Kozlevo Municipality :
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 11,151 | 10,034 | 8,427 | 7,157 | 6,796 | 6,618 | 6,381 | 6,100 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | 1299 | 22.9% |
| Turks | 2883 | 50.8% |
| Roma (Gypsy) | 1176 | 20.7% |
| Other | 115 | 2% |
| Undeclared | 199 | 3.5% |

#### Vital statistics

| | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) |
| 2000 | 7,586 | 100 | 125 | -25 | 13.2 | 16.5 | -3.2 |
| 2001 | 7,018 | 96 | 113 | -17 | 13.7 | 16.1 | -2.4 |
| 2002 | 6,953 | 100 | 107 | -7 | 14.4 | 15.4 | -1.0 |
| 2003 | 6,955 | 84 | 116 | -32 | 12.1 | 16.7 | -4.6 |
| 2004 | 6,904 | 109 | 101 | 8 | 15.8 | 14.6 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 6,796 | 76 | 112 | -36 | 11.2 | 16.5 | -5.3 |
| 2006 | 6,742 | 98 | 91 | 7 | 14.5 | 13.5 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 6,618 | 103 | 117 | -14 | 15.6 | 17.7 | -2.1 |
| 2008 | 6,466 | 74 | 92 | -18 | 11.4 | 14.2 | -2.8 |
| 2009 | 6,381 | 92 | 94 | -2 | 14.4 | 14.7 | -0.3 |
| 2010 | 6,344 | 72 | 96 | -24 | 11.3 | 15.1 | -3.8 |
| 2011 | 6,130 | 85 | 92 | -7 | 13.9 | 15.0 | -1.1 |
| 2012 | 6,104 | 85 | 98 | -13 | 13.9 | 16.1 | -2.1 |
| 2013 | 6,093 | 76 | 75 | 1 | 12.5 | 12.3 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 6,084 | 74 | 81 | -7 | 12.2 | 13.3 | -1.2 |
| 2015 | 6,130 | 61 | 93 | -32 | 10.0 | 15.2 | -5.2 |
| 2016 | 6,135 | 60 | 78 | -18 | 9.8 | 12.7 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6,204 | 83 | 79 | 4 | 13.4 | 12.7 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 6,236 | 80 | 83 | -3 | 12.8 | 13.3 | -0.5 |

#### 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 Nikola Kozlevo Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
25.1%
Catholicism
0.1%
Protestantism
0.1%
Islam
67.1%
No religion
1.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
6.5% :
Nearly all ethnic Turks are Muslim, while nearly all Bulgarians are Orthodox Christians. A majority of the Roma people are Muslim, with a large Christian minority.