Avren Municipality


Avren Municipality is a seaside municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre – the village of Avren.
Its area spreads from Provadiya Municipality in the west to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east. To the south the municipality is mostly defined by the Kamchiya river and its estuary. It embraces a territory of 380 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 9,089 inhabitants.

Settlements

Avren Municipality includes the following 17 places, all of them are villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
AvrenАврен750
BenkovskiБенковски445
BliznatsiБлизнаци842
BolyartsiБолярци192
Dobri DolДобри дол34
DabravinoДъбравино1,460
Kazashka RekaКазашка река326
KitkaКитка247
KrushaКруша113
PriseltsiПриселци849
Ravna GoraРавна гора236
SadovoСадово351
SindelСиндел1,259
TsarevtsiЦаревци841
TrastikovoТръстиково657
YunakЮнак145
ZdravetsЗдравец342
Total9,089

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:
A majority of the population of Avren Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 62.3% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. There is a relatively large Muslim minority and a large part did not answer.