Glavinitsa Municipality

Glavinitsa Municipality (Община Главиница) is a municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Glavinitsa.

The municipality embraces a territory of 481.23 km2 with a population of 12,610 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road II-21 crosses the area from east to west, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Ruse.

Settlements
Glavinitsa Municipality includes the following 23 places all of them villages:

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

Ethnic groups
Ethnic Turks constitute the majority of the population of Glavinitsa Municipality, followed by a large Bulgarian minority and a small Roma community.

Demographic indicators
The municipality of Glavinitsa is losing many inhabitants. Last decade, the number of births decreased slightly while the number of deaths increased significantly.

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: