Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality ( bg, Община Горна Оряховица) is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(''
obshtina'') in
Veliko Tarnovo Province
Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Област Велико Търново, Oblast Veliko Tǎrnovo) is a province in the middle of the northern part of Bulgaria. Its capital city, Veliko Tarnovo, is of historical significance as it is known as the capital of ...
, central-north
Bulgaria
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. It covers an area of 318 km² with a total population of 48,695 people (as of 2009-12-31).
[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009]
The
administrative centre of the municipality is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Gorna Oryahovitsa
Gorna Oryahovitsa ( bg, Горна Оряховица ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, situated in Veliko Tarnovo Province, from Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality. According to t ...
, which is situated at the foot of
Arbanashka Mountain, along the
Yantra River
The Yantra ( bg, Янтра ) is a river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. It is long (the third longest Bulgarian tributary of the Danube, after Iskar and Osam), and has a watershed of . Its average discharge at the mouth ...
.
Settlements
The municipality has 14 settlements (2 towns and 12 villages).
Note: The place names in bold have the status of
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
(in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as ''grad''). Other localities have the status of
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
(in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as ''selo''). The names of localities are transliterated in
Latin alphabet
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,
Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality, Veliko Turnovo District
at Guide-Bulgaria.com - reference for location names followed in parentheses by the original name in Bulgarian Cyrillic (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
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:
See also
* Provinces of Bulgaria
* Municipalities of Bulgaria
*List of cities and towns in Bulgaria
This is a complete list of all cities and towns in Bulgaria sorted by population. Province capitals are shown in bold. Primary sources are the National Statistical Institute (NSI) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The largest city is Sofia ...
References
External links
Official website
Gorna.bg Informational portal for municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa (Bulgarian)
{{Authority control
Municipalities in Veliko Tarnovo Province