| Dushinkovo Душинково | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
| Coordinates: 41° 28 N, 25° 19 E | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Kardzhali Province |
| Municipality | Dzhebel |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6 km2 (2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 398 m (1,306 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 104 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Dushinkovo is a village in Dzhebel Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria. [1]
Dzhebel Municipality is a municipality in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. It includes the town of Dzhebel and a number of 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.
The village of Dushinkovo has 104 inhabitants (2011 census). All inhabitants are ethnic Turks and are Muslim by religion. It had a much larger population (around 600 people) in the 1980s, but most inhabitants emigrated because of the assimilation policy towards ethnic Turks during Communist rule.
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.
