Yakoruda Municipality

Yakoruda Municipality
Yakoruda Municipality; Община Якоруда
	Municipality
	Location in Blagoevgrad province Location on map of Bulgaria
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Blagoevgrad
Area
• Total	339.28 km2 (131.00 sq mi)
Population
• Total	10,284
• Density	30/km2 (79/sq mi)

Last updated May 22, 2019

Yakoruda Municipality is a municipality in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria.

Blagoevgrad Province, also known as Pirin Macedonia is a province (oblast) of southwestern Bulgaria. It borders four other Bulgarian provinces to the north and east, to the Greek region of Macedonia to the south, and North Macedonia to the west. The province has 14 municipalities with 12 towns. Its principal city is Blagoevgrad, while other significant towns include Bansko, Gotse Delchev, Melnik, Petrich, Razlog, Sandanski, and Simitli.

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.

Demographics

Of all the people who answered the question on their religion, 77% declared Muslim. Most of those Muslims are the so-called Pomaks, or Bulgarian Muslims but they tend to declare themselves as Turkish people.

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.

Turkish people or the Turks, also known as Anatolian Turks, are a Turkic ethnic group and nation living mainly in Turkey and speaking Turkish, the most widely spoken Turkic language. They are the largest ethnic group in Turkey, as well as by far the largest ethnic group among the speakers of Turkic languages. Ethnic Turkish minorities exist in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. In addition, a Turkish diaspora has been established with modern migration, particularly in Western Europe.

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:

Religious composition of Yakoruda Municipality ^[1]

Orthodox Christianity			18.1%
Catholicism			0.1%
Protestantism			0.2%
Islam			76.9%
No religion			0.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable			4.3%

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References

↑ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

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Coordinates: 42°01′04″N23°40′08″E / 42.0177°N 23.6688°E / 42.0177; 23.6688

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[1] "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

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Yakoruda Municipality Община Якоруда
Municipality
Location in Blagoevgrad province Location on map of Bulgaria
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Blagoevgrad
Area
• Total	339.28 km² (131.00 sq mi)
Population
• Total	10,284
• Density	30/km² (79/sq mi)