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Veliki Preslav Municipality

municipality in Shumen oblast, Bulgaria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ2219326 ↗
Source-derived summary

Veliki Preslav Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Велики Преслав; former Preslav Municipality, Bulgarian: Община Преслав) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan north of the eastern part of the Stara planina mountains. It is named after its administrative centre, the town of Veliki Preslav, which was one of the ancient capitals of Bulgaria.

The municipality embraces a territory of 277.65 km2 (107.20 sq mi) with a population of 15,292 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

Settlements

Veliki Preslav Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold):

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Editorial summary

“Veliki Preslav Municipality” enters the record as municipality in Shumen oblast, Bulgaria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Veliki, Preslav and Municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Veliki Preslav Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.