Ardino Municipality

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Ardino Municipality

Община Ардино
Municipality
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Ardino
Coordinates: 41°35′N25°8′E / 41.583°N 25.133°E / 41.583; 25.133 Coordinates: 41°35′N25°8′E / 41.583°N 25.133°E / 41.583; 25.133
Country Bulgaria
Province Kardzhali
Municipality Ardino
Area
  Total341.45 km2 (131.83 sq mi)
Population
(1-Feb-2011)
  Total13,326
  Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Website www.ardino.bg
Ardino municipality within Kardzhali Province Map of Ardino municipality (Kardzhali Province).png
Ardino municipality within Kardzhali Province

Ardino Municipality is a municipality in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. It includes the town of Ardino and 51 nearby villages.

Kardzhali Province Province in Bulgaria

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 country in Southeast Europe

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 Place in Kurdzhali, Bulgaria

Ardino is a town in southern Bulgaria, in the Rhodope Mountains. It is located in Kardzhali Province and it is also close to Smolyan.

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Demographics

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 1939–1945 global war

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 Census1956 Census1965 Census1975 Census1985 Census1992 Census2001 Census2011 Census2018 Estimate
30,60929,40733,18529,50727,69818,17413,64911,57212,792

The municipality of Ardino has lost more than two thirds of its population in a period of seventy years.

Vital statistics

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.

PopulationLive birthsDeathsNatural growthBirth rate (‰)Death rate (‰)Natural growth rate (‰)
200017,898 132168-367.49.4-2.0
200113,492 124148-249.211.0-1.8
2002 13,410103144-417.710.7-3.1
2003 13,236118150-328.911.3-2.4
2004 13,102137136110.510.40.1
200512,916 126151-259.811.7-1.9
2006 12,686 126192-669.915.1-5.2
2007 12,503 122153-319.812.2-2.5
2008 12,368 122152-309.912.3-2.4
2009 12,128 107168-618.813.9-5.0
2010 12,282 90132-427.310.7-3.4
2011 11,476 81163-827.114.2-7.1
201211,412 83172-897.315.1-7.8
201311,286 83170-877.415.1-7.7
2014 11,956 78159-816.513.3-6.8
2015 12,377 89168-797.213.6-6.4
201612,424 85177-926.814.2-7.4
2017 12,630 100177-777.914.0-6.1
2018 12,792 66193-1275.215.1-9.9

Ethnic composition

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

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.

Ethnic groups in Ardino Municipality (2011 census)
Ethnic groupPercentage
Bulgarians
26.9%
Turks
71.2%
Romani
0.0%
others and indefinable
1.9%

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 Ardino Municipality [4]
Orthodox Christianity
2.1%
Catholicism
0.2%
Protestantism
0.0%
Islam
91.4%
No religion
1.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
5.2%

Both ethnic Turks and Bulgarians are predominantly Islamic by faith.

Islam in Bulgaria

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.

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References

  1. "Population by districts, municipalities, place of residence and sex | National statistical institute". www.nsi.bg. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  2. "Deaths by districts, municipalities and sex | National statistical institute". www.nsi.bg. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  3. "Ethnic composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  4. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.