Shumen Province (Bulgarian: Област Шумен, transliterated Oblast Shumen, former name Shumen okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria named after its main city Shumen. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as of December 2009, of 194,090 inhabitants.
Shumen • Kaspichan • Novi Pazar • Veliki Preslav • Smyadovo • Varbitsa • Kaolinovo • Hitrino • Venets • Nikola Kozlevo Municipalities within Shumen Province with their administrative centresFamous quotes containing the word province:
“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province of woman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)