Byala ( bg, Бяла ) is a town in Ruse Province, Northern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Byala Municipality. The town is located on the crossroad between roads that connect Ruse with

Veliko Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...

and Pleven with Varna. Close to it is the town of Borovo. The noted

Belenski most The Belenski most (Беленски мост) or Byala Bridge is an arch bridge over the Yantra River in northern Bulgaria, 1 km from the town of Byala in Ruse Province, whose name it carries. It is regarded as one of the prominent achieveme ...

(Byala Bridge) over the

Yantra River The Yantra ( bg, Янтра ) is a river in northern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube. It is long (the third longest Bulgarian tributary of the Danube, after Iskar and Osam), and has a watershed of . Its average discharge at the mouth ...

is located in the vicinity. The Liberation War Museum dedicated to the

Russo-Turkish War The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histo ...

can also be found in the town. As of December 2009, Byala has a population of 9,015 inhabitants.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
File:BigbenByala.JPG, Clock tower in Byala. File:Road bridge in front of Byala Bridge.jpg, Road bridge in front of Byala bridge. File:Byala-Rousse-district-Museum-of-Liberation-War.jpg, Liberation War Museum.

Trivia

A major traffic accident on 7 December 2006 on a different bridge over the river claimed 18 lives, as a truck hit a bus travelling between Byala and its railway station, causing the bus to fall 15 m down from the bridge.Катастрофа почерни Бяла

References

Towns in Bulgaria Populated places in Ruse Province {{RuseBG-geo-stub