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Kardzhali Province (Bulgarie: Област Кърджали, transliteratit Oblast Kardjali) is a province o soothren Bulgarie, neebourin Greece wi the Greek regional units o Xanthi, Rhodope an Evros tae the sooth an east. Kardzhali Province aurie is 3209.1 km². Its main ceety is Kardzhali.
Kardzhali Province Област Кърджали | |
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Location o Kardzhali Province in Bulgarie | |
Kintra | Bulgarie |
Caipital | Kardzhali |
Municipalities | 7 |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Ivanka Taushanova |
Area | |
• Total | 3,209 km2 (1,239 sq mi) |
Population (February 2011)[1] | |
• Total | 152,808 |
• Density | 48/km2 (120/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
License plate | K |
Website | kj.government.bg |
The territory o Kardzhali province wis acquired bi Bulgarie durin the First Balkan War in 1912. In 1913 the region wis organizit as the destrict (окръг, okrag in Bulgarie) o Mestanli. This destrict wis pairt o Stara Zagora province frae 1934 till 1949,[2] then it wis transferred tae the newly formit Haskovo destrict. In 1959 Kardzhali became the centre o a new destrict wi seemilar borders tae the current province. Atween 1987 an 1999, the region wis pairt o Haskovo Province, efter which it wis restored, nou as a province an wi slichtly chyngit borders.
The Kardzhali province (област, oblast) contains seiven municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The follaein table shows the names o each municipality in Scots an Cyrillic, the main toun (in bauld) or veelage, an the population as o 2009.
Municipality | Cyrillic | Pop.[3] | Toun/Veelage | Pop.[3] |
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Ardino | Ардино | 13,766 | Ardino | 4,368 |
Chernoochene | Черноочене | 10,132 | Chernoochene | 335 |
Dzhebel | Джебел | 9,012 | Dzhebel | 3,288 |
Kardzhali | Кърджали | 75,525 | Kardzhali | 50,482 |
Kirkovo | Кирково | 22,833 | Kirkovo | 719 |
Krumovgrad | Крумовград | 20,517 | Krumovgrad | 5,475 |
Momchilgrad | Момчилград | 19,327 | Momchilgrad | 9,187 |
The population data an figurs are o December 15, 2004
The Kardzhali province haed a population o 149,661 accordin tae the 2011 census, o which 49.8% wur male an 50.2% wur female.[1][4][5][6]
The follaein table represents the chynge o the population in the province efter Warld War II:
Kardzhali Province | |||||||||||
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Year | 1946 | 1956 | 1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 218,686 | 246,761 | 283,758 | 273,906 | 290,254 | 203,251 | 164,019 | 158,541 | 156,652 | 154,719 | 149,661 |
Soorces: Naitional Stateestical Institute,[4] „Census 2001“,[5] „Census 2011“,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,?? |
In the 2001 census, 149,839 fowk frae Kardzhali province identifee'd ane o the follaein as thair releegion (wi percentage o tot population): 35,265 Orthodox Christian (21.5%), 114,217 Muslim (69.6%), 197 Roman Catholic (0.1%), 89 Protestant (0.05%), an 71 ither (0.04%).[7]
In the 2001 census, 160,167 fowk frae Kardzhali province identifee'd ane o the follaein as thair mither tongue (wi percentage o tot population): 101,548 Turkis (61.9%), 57,046 Bulgarie (34.8%), 1,171 Roma (Gypsy) (0.7%), an 402 ither (0.2%).[8]
In the 2001 census, 158,704 fowk frae Kardzhali province identifee'd thairsels as belangin tae ane o the follaein ethnic groups (wi percentage o tot population):[9]
Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
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Bulgaries | 55,939 | 34.105% |
Turks | 101,116 | 61.649% |
Roma (Gypsy) | 1,264 | 0.771% |
Roushies | 234 | 0.143% |
Armenies | 41 | 0.025% |
Vlachs | - | 0.000% |
Macedonies | 7 | 0.004% |
Greeks | 21 | 0.013% |
Ukrainians | 20 | 0.012% |
Jews | 1 | 0.001% |
Romanies | 1 | 0.001% |
Ither | 60 | 0.037% |
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