Sevlievo Municipality

Sevlievo Municipality (Община Севлиево) is a municipality (obshtina) in Gabrovo Province, North-central Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan between Stara planina mountain and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Sevlievo.

The municipality embraces a territory of 1040 km2 with a population of 39,537 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The area is best known with the Batoshevski Monastery, situated close to Batoshevo village.

Settlements
Sevlievo Municipality includes the following 50 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Sevlievo Municipality has comprised the former municipalities of Gradnitsa and Stokite and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

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: