Venets Municipality


Venets Municipality is a municipality in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Venets.
The municipality embraces a territory of 222.56 km² with a population of 6,905 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Venets Municipality includes the following 13 places, all of them are villages:
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
VenetsВенец725
BortsiБорци540
BoyanБоян412
BuynovitsaБуйновица238
ChernoglavtsiЧерноглавци471
DennitsaДенница118
DrentsiДренци314
GabritsaГабрица441
IzgrevИзгрев744
Kapitan PetkoКапитан Петко495
OsenovetsОсеновец382
StrahilitsaСтрахилица75
YasenkovoЯсенково1,950
Total6,905

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

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:
Ethnic groupPopulationPercentage
Bulgarians122
Turks5707
Roma 506
Other3
Undeclared73

The population is predominantly Turkish, with Bulgarian, Romani and other minorities.

Religion

The municipality of Venets has the second highest share of Turks in Bulgaria with 89%, which makes it also the municipality with the second highest share of Muslims in Bulgaria, with 95% of its population belonging to the Islamic community. The small Bulgarian population is mostly Christian.