Lyaskovets Municipality


Lyaskovets Municipality is a municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lyaskovets.
The municipality embraces a territory of 117.54 km² with a population of 13,677 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road E772 crosses the area centrally, connecting the province centre of Veliko Tarnovo with the city of Targovishte and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Lyaskovets Municipality includes the following 6 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
LyaskovetsЛясковец8,277
Dobri DyalДобри дял1,168
DragizhevoДрагижево800
DzhulunitsaДжулюница1,900
KozarevetsКозаревец915
MerdanyaМерданя617
Total13,677

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: