Gulyantsi Municipality ( bg, Община Гулянци) 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

Pleven Province Pleven Province ( bg, Област Плевен or Плевенска Област) is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It i ...

, Northern

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, located along the right bank of

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, by the border with

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. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of

Gulyantsi Gulyantsi ( bg, Гулянци, ; also transliterated ''Guljanci'', ''Gulyanci'', ''Guliantzi'', ''Gulyantzi'', etc.) is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Pleven Province. It is the administrative centre of Gulyantsi municipality and lie ...

. As of December 2009, the municipality has a total population of 13,561 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
The main cultural sight in the municipality are the ruins of the large Ancient Roman city of

Ulpia Oescus Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum ( bg, Улпия Ескус, ) was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Ancient Rome, Roman Moesia. It later became known as ''Ulpia Oescus''. It lay northwest of the modern Bulgarian city of Plev ...

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 The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

, between river kilometres 604 and 639.

Settlements

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:

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