Ardino Municipality Община Ардино | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 41°35′N25°8′E / 41.583°N 25.133°E Coordinates: 41°35′N25°8′E / 41.583°N 25.133°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province | Kardzhali |
Municipality | Ardino |
Area | |
• Total | 341.45 km2 (131.83 sq mi) |
Population (1-Feb-2011) | |
• Total | 13,326 |
• Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Website | www |
Ardino Municipality is a municipality in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. It includes the town of Ardino and 51 nearby villages.
Kardzhali District is a province of southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece with the Greek regional units of Xanthi, Rhodope, and Evros to the south and east. It is 3209.1 km² in area. Its main city is Kardzhali.
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.
Ardino is a town in southern Bulgaria, in the Rhodope Mountains. It is located in Kardzhali Province and it is also close to Smolyan.
As of December 2018, the municipality of Ardino has 12,792 inhabitants. Only 4,002 inhabitants live in the town of Ardino and the remainder in one of the 51 villages. [1]
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
1946 Census | 1956 Census | 1965 Census | 1975 Census | 1985 Census | 1992 Census | 2001 Census | 2011 Census | 2018 Estimate |
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30,609 | 29,407 | 33,185 | 29,507 | 27,698 | 18,174 | 13,649 | 11,572 | 12,792 |
The municipality of Ardino has lost more than two thirds of its population in a period of seventy years.
The municipality of Ardino recorded just 66 birth, down from 132 in 2000. At the same time there were 193 deaths, up from 168 deaths in 2000. [2] Demographic trends in the municipality of Ardino have largely been unfavourable.
Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) | |
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2000 | 17,898 | 132 | 168 | -36 | 7.4 | 9.4 | -2.0 |
2001 | 13,492 | 124 | 148 | -24 | 9.2 | 11.0 | -1.8 |
2002 | 13,410 | 103 | 144 | -41 | 7.7 | 10.7 | -3.1 |
2003 | 13,236 | 118 | 150 | -32 | 8.9 | 11.3 | -2.4 |
2004 | 13,102 | 137 | 136 | 1 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 0.1 |
2005 | 12,916 | 126 | 151 | -25 | 9.8 | 11.7 | -1.9 |
2006 | 12,686 | 126 | 192 | -66 | 9.9 | 15.1 | -5.2 |
2007 | 12,503 | 122 | 153 | -31 | 9.8 | 12.2 | -2.5 |
2008 | 12,368 | 122 | 152 | -30 | 9.9 | 12.3 | -2.4 |
2009 | 12,128 | 107 | 168 | -61 | 8.8 | 13.9 | -5.0 |
2010 | 12,282 | 90 | 132 | -42 | 7.3 | 10.7 | -3.4 |
2011 | 11,476 | 81 | 163 | -82 | 7.1 | 14.2 | -7.1 |
2012 | 11,412 | 83 | 172 | -89 | 7.3 | 15.1 | -7.8 |
2013 | 11,286 | 83 | 170 | -87 | 7.4 | 15.1 | -7.7 |
2014 | 11,956 | 78 | 159 | -81 | 6.5 | 13.3 | -6.8 |
2015 | 12,377 | 89 | 168 | -79 | 7.2 | 13.6 | -6.4 |
2016 | 12,424 | 85 | 177 | -92 | 6.8 | 14.2 | -7.4 |
2017 | 12,630 | 100 | 177 | -77 | 7.9 | 14.0 | -6.1 |
2018 | 12,792 | 66 | 193 | -127 | 5.2 | 15.1 | -9.9 |
A majority of the population consists of ethnic Bulgarian Turks (71.2%). [3] Ethnic Bulgarians make up around 26.9% of the population. Most of those Bulgarians are Pomaks.
Bulgarians are the main ethnic group in Bulgaria, according to the census of the population in 2011 they are 5 664 624 people, or 76.9% of the country's population.
Pomaks is a term used for Slavic Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northeastern Greece and mainly northwestern Turkey, mainly referring to the ca. 220,000 strong ethno-confessional minority in Bulgaria known officially as Bulgarian Muslims. The term has also been used as a wider designation, including also the Slavic Muslim populations of North Macedonia and Albania. Their language, a Bulgarian dialect, is referred to in Greece and Turkey as the Pomak language. The community in Greece is commonly fluent in Greek, and in Turkey, Turkish, while the communities in these two countries, especially in Turkey, are increasingly adopting Turkish as their first language as a result of education and family links with the Turkish people. The origin of the Pomaks has been debated; but they are generally considered descendants of native Eastern Orthodox Bulgarian Slavs who converted to Islam during the Ottoman rule of the Balkans. Information through Ottoman registers supports this theory.
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
Both ethnic Turks and Bulgarians are predominantly Islamic by faith.
Islam in Bulgaria is a minority religion and the largest religion in the country after Christianity. According to the 2011 Census, the total number of Muslims in Bulgaria stood at 577,139, corresponding to 7.8% of the population. According to a 2017 estimate, Muslims make up 15% of the population. Ethnically, Muslims in Bulgaria are Turks, Bulgarians and Roma, living mainly in parts of northeastern Bulgaria and in the Rhodope Mountains.
The demography of the Republic of Bulgaria is monitored by the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.
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