Tervel Municipality

Tervel Municipality (Община Тервел) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region, about 30 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre, the town of Tervel.

The municipality has a territory of 579.7 km2, with a population of 17,458, as of December 2009.

More significant tourist sights in the area include the early Byzantine cave monasteries around the villages of Balik and Brestnitsa dating to the 5th-6th century.

Settlements
Tervel Municipality includes the following 26 places; all of them are villages:

Demography
The municipality has a mixed population consisting mostly of Turks (40.60% according to 2011 census data), Bulgarians (37.06%) and Romani (11.12%).

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: