Beloslav is a small industrial town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, located 19 km away to the west from Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 downtown and Bulgarian Black Sea coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Beloslav Municipality

Beloslav Municipality

Beloslav Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Beloslav....

. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 7,937 inhabitants. Beloslav is located along the eastern edge of Lake Beloslav

Lake Beloslav

Lake Beloslav is a liman, which connected by the navigation canal with the Lake Varna. Before the canal was built the lake was freshwater, but not the water if brackish. The rivers Devnya and Provadiyska inflow to the Lake Beloslav. The area of the liman is about 40-10 km2, width 0.5-3.5 km,...

 and on both sides of the canal connecting it with Lake Varna

Lake Varna

Lake Varna is the largest by volume and deepest liman or lake along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, divided from the sea by a 2 km-wide strip of sand and having an area of 17 km², maximal depth 19 m, and a volume of 166 million m³....

. The two parts of town are connected by a vehicle and passenger ferry across the canal. A road bridge is to be built in the near future over the canal east of town carrying a bypass of the E87 international highway now passing through downtown Varna via the Asparuhov most

Asparuhov most

The Asparuhov most or Asparuhov Bridge is a bridge in Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, connecting the Asparuhovo quarter to the rest of the city over the canals between the Black Sea and Lake Varna....

 bridge.

Beloslav is an ancient settlement populated probably about 12,000 years ago. The first settlers inhabited the cave near today's town, where 12,000-year-old items were found. Around the 5th century BC the Thracians

Thracians

The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting areas including Thrace in Southeastern Europe. They spoke the Thracian language – a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family...

 settled in the region. The town was also known as Krushevo, Gebedzhe , Belovo, and Belevo. The Ottoman name is still used today in certain situations.

Beloslav is a transportation and industrial hub of national significance, part of the Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex

Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex

The Devnya Industrial Complex consists of several important factories and companies in the chemical industry sector of Bulgaria. The reason why Devnya has become the host of this cluster is that the region is relatively rich in raw materials like water, rock salt, silica, marl, and limestone...

. Transportation facilities include the railway and ro-ro ferry terminal with lines to Ukraine

Ukraine

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, Russia

Russia

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 and Georgia

Georgia (country)

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 served by the Sindel-razpredelitelna marshalling yard, the seaports of Varna Power Plant and LesPort of the Port of Varna

Port of Varna

Port of Varna is the largest seaport complex in Bulgaria. Located on the Black Sea's west coast on Varna Bay, along Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav, it also comprises the outlying port of Balchik...

 complex, and a couple of railway stations. The largest (1320 МW capacity plus a 880 MW natural gas-fueled installation under development) thermal power plant in the nation, TEC Varna

Varna Power Plant

Varna Thermal Power Plant is located on the northern shore of the Lake Varna near the village of Ezerovo at 12 km to the west of Varna, eastern Bulgaria. It was bought by the Czech energy company CEZ Group....

, part of the CEZ

CEZ Group

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 Group, and the Terem Flotski Arsenal shipbuilding/repair yard, compricing also an Oceanic-Creations

Oceanic-Creations

Oceanic-Creations AB is a company based in Sweden, founded in 1986 around the so-called Oceanic-Creations Composite Technology , a special process for producing a carbon fibre based construction material. The company has a production plant in Varna, Bulgaria...

 facility, are located just east of town. TEC Varna materialized the largest cash privatization deal in the nation after 1989.

Beloslav is an old centre of artistic glassblowing and fireproof glassmaking and currently supplies glass vials to international pharmaceutical companies. In 2007, development of a new business and logistics centre started on the site of a former glass factory; it will also include two new manufacturing facilities and a port terminal for handling natural gas condensate

Natural gas condensate

Natural-gas condensate is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields....

, and will create a total of 2,000 jobs. The northeastern industrial park also contains several construction operations.

Beloslav is the seat of a municipality, which also includes the following villages:

• Ezerovo
• Razdelna
• Strashimirovo