Shumen Province ( bg, Област Шумен,
transliterated ''Oblast Shumen'', former name
Shumen okrug) is a
province in northeastern
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Maced ...
named after its main city
Shumen. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 194,090 inhabitants.
[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009]
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The Main City
The city of Shumen is famous in the region for the Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria. The monument is in the cubist
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
style and is 1300 steps (each step representing a year) above the center of the town. Other places of note are the Shumen fortress, Tombul Mosque, and Shumen Plato National park. The center of the town has a historical museum, large library, and large theater. The municipality building, also in the center, has a concert hall that features regular symphony performances. Shumen is also the location of the Shumensko
Shumensko is a Bulgarian beer brand ( bg, Шуменско пиво) from the town of Shumen.
The brewery was founded in 1882 by merchants from Shumen and the Czech master brewer Franz Milde, who arrived in September and founded the Bulgarian ...
Brewery, a popular beer in Bulgaria. The area surrounding Shumen plays a significant part in Bulgarian History with the first and second capitols of historical Bulgaria within thirty kilometers from the city.
Municipalities
The Shumen Province contains 10 municipalities (singular: община, ''obshtina'' - plural: общини, ''obshtini''). The following table shows each municipality's name in English and Cyrillic
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, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = Gr ...
, main town (in bold) or village, and population as of December 2009.
Population
The Shumen province had a population of 204,395 (204,378 also given) according to a 2001 census, of which were male and were female.[Population to 01.03.2001 by Area and Sex]
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As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 194,090[Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Population by age in 2009]
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:
Ethnic groups
Total population (2011 census): 180,528
By self-identified ethnicity (167,952 people):
*Bulgarians
Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe.
Etymology
Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...
: 99,446 (59.21%)
* Turks: 50,878 (30.29%)
*Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
: 13,847 (8.24%)
*Others and indefinable: 3,781 (2.25%)
A further 12,000 people did not declare their ethnic group.
Self-identified ethnic group according to the 2001 census (204,378 people out of the total population of 204,395, with percentage of total population):[Population to 01.03.2001 by District and Ethnic Group]
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*Bulgarians
Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe.
Etymology
Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...
: 123,084 (60.22%)
* Turks: 59,551 (29.14%)
*Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
: 16,457 (8.05%)
Religion
Religious adherence in the province according to 2001 census:Religious adherence in Bulgaria - census 2001
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Transportation
Shumen lies on the main route between Varna and Sofia and is served by numerous trains and buses serving the city.
See also
* Provinces of Bulgaria
* List of villages in Shumen Province
References
External links
{{Authority control
Provinces of Bulgaria
Turkish communities outside Turkey