Omurtag Municipality ( bg, Община Омуртаг) 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

Targovishte Province Targovishte Province ( bg, Област Търговище, transliterated ''Oblast Tǎrgovište'', former name Targovishte okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, named after its main city - Targovishte. As of December 2009, it has a po ...

, Northeastern

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, located in the so-called

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area north of the

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

Omurtag Omurtag (or Omortag) ( bg, Омуртаг; original gr, Μορτάγων and Ομουρτάγ', Inscription No.64. Retrieved 10 April 2012.) was a Great Khan (''Kanasubigi'') of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder". In the very ...

. The municipality embraces a territory of 401.7 km² with a total population of 21,356 inhabitants, as of February 2011.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Targovishte Province - Census 2011
The main road E772 crosses the area connecting its main town with the province centre

Targovishte Targovishte ( bg, Търговище, also transliterated ''Tǎrgovište'', , tr, Eski Cuma) is a city in Bulgaria, the administrative and economic capital of Targovishte Province. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Pr ...

, to the northeast, and the city of

Veliko Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...

to the west.

Settlements

Omurtag Municipality includes the following 43 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Omurtag Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Obitel and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute

Demographic indicators

The municipality of Omurtag had relatively favourable demographic indicators compared to the Bulgarian average. But after 2013, the number of births decreased significantly while the number of deaths increased. Omurtag recorded its lowest

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, highest

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and lowest natural growth in 2017. It was the biggest yearly fall since 2000. The continued childbirth decline came amid the falling number of women of childbearing age because of emigration to

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(especially

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and

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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:

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Municipalities in Targovishte Province