Lukovit Municipality ( Bulgarian : Община Луковит ) is a municipality ( obshtina ) in Lovech Province , Central-North Bulgaria , located from the Fore-Balkan area to the southern parts of Danubian Plain . It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lukovit .
7-413: The municipality embraces a territory of 454.22 km (175.38 sq mi) with a population of 19,469 inhabitants, as of December 2009. The west operating part of Hemus motorway is planned to continue through the area linking the province centre Lovech . Lukovit Municipality includes the following 12 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during
14-456: Is a partially built motorway in Bulgaria . Its planned length is 418 km, of which 191 km are in operation as of October 2022 . The motorway in operation is divided into two sections — the first one links the capital Sofia with Boaza near Yablanitsa , crossing Stara planina ( Balkan Mountains ), and the second segment connects Varna and Buhovtsi near Targovishte . According to
21-703: The Hemus motorway was officially opened on 5 December 1999. Due to the mountainous terrain through the Balkans , the 5.47 km section together with another 16 km reconstructed, features two viaducts and one tunnel ( Praveshki hanove ), while the whole Sofia–Yablanitsa section has three more tunnels. The construction of the Pravets–Yablanitsa section began in 1984 but ceased in the late 1980s due to lack of funds to eventually be finished in 1998–1999. The 12.8 km section connecting Shumen with Kaspichan to
28-600: The east was opened on 30 December 2005 and cost 77.6 million leva . In August 2015, a 4.9 km segment, including the Belokopitovo interchange (with I-2 road ), was inaugurated. In October 2019, а 9.3 km segment, connecting Yablanitsa with the I-4 road near the Boaza ravine of Vit , was inaugurated. In October 2022, а 16.3 km segment, connecting Belokopitovo with the village of Buhovtsi near Targovishte ,
35-492: The last four decades. Since 1992 Lukovit Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Dermantsi and the numbers in the table reflect this unification. According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Hemus motorway The Hemus motorway ( Bulgarian : Автомагистрала „Хемус“ , Avtomagistrala "Hemus" ) or Haemus motorway , designated A2 ,
42-663: The plans, Hemus motorway would connect Sofia with the third-largest city of Varna, at the Black Sea coast, duplicating European route E70 (Varna–Shumen), European route E772 (Shumen–Yablanitsa) and European route E83 (Yablanitsa–Sofia). The construction of the motorway officially began. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by the First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), Todor Zhivkov . The Pravets – Yablanitsa section of
49-529: Was inaugurated. In January 2013 National Company "Strategic Infrastructure Projects" (NCSIP), a state-run company, tendered feasibility study for the remaining sections of Hemus motorway (Yablanitsa- Panayot Volovo ). In 2014 NCSIP signed contracts for drawing conceptual designs for all 8 lots of the motorway. In January 2015, a tender for design and build of 2 lots, between Yablanitsa and the Pleven/Lovech road, has been announced by NCSIP. In 2016 NCSIP
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