Tundzha Municipality

Tundzha Municipality (Bulgarian: община Тунджа) is a municipality of Yambol Province, southeastern Bulgaria. The municipality has an area of 1,218.86 square kilometres, making it the second-largest by area in the country after the Capital Municipality (i.e. the city of Sofia). It covers 44 villages and has a population of 21,435 according to 2005 data. All the villages in the province are administratively equal, and the administrative centre of the municipality is located in the provincial capital of Yambol, which is not part of Tundzha municipality itself: the city is equivalent to Yambol Municipality, which is an enclave within Tundzha Municipality. Tundzha municipality is named after the Tundzha River, the most significant tributary of the Maritsa.

Tundzha Municipality Община Тунджа
Municipality
Coordinates: 42°19′N 26°29′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province	Yambol
Seat	Yambol (outside the municipality)
Area
• Total	1,218.86 km2 (470.60 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• Total	21,435
• Density	18/km2 (46/sq mi)

The following villages are part of Tundzha Municipality:

Asenovo Bezmer Bolyarsko Botevo Boyadzhik Chargan Chelnik Drazhevo Drama Dryanovo Hadzhi Dimitrovo Hanovo General Inzovo General Toshevo Golyam Manastir Galabintsi Kabile Kalchevo Karavelovo Kozarevo Konevets Krumovo

Kukorevo Malomir Meden Kladenets Mezhda Miladinovtsi Mogila Okop Ovchi Kladenets Pobeda Robovo Roza Savino Simeonovo Skalitsa Slamino Stara Reka Tarnava Tenevo Veselinovo Vidintsi Zavoy Zlatari

A notable native is Ivan Atanasov, the father of John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), Bulgarian American physicist and inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer. He was born in Boyadzhik. The Bezmer Air Base, one of the joint US-Bulgarian military bases, is also located in the municipality, near the villages of Bezmer and Bolyarsko.

Demography

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 Tundzha Municipality Orthodox Christianity   81.8% Catholicism   0.6% Protestantism   2.6% Islam   0.5% No religion   7.6% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   10.1%

External links

• Tundzha municipality website (in Bulgarian)
• Another Tundzha municipality website (in Bulgarian)