Beloslav ( ) is a small industrial

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, located 19 km away to the west from

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downtown and

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. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous

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

. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 7,937.Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - towns in 2009
Beloslav is located along the eastern edge of

Lake Beloslav Lake Beloslav () is a liman, which connected by a navigation canal with Lake Varna. Before the canal was built the lake was freshwater, but now the water is brackish. The rivers Devnya and Provadiyska flow into Lake Beloslav. The area of the li ...

and on both sides of the canal connecting it with

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. 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

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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

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

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and

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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 ()map 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. It has a significant further development poten ...

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

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

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, 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 Strashimirovo ( Bulgarian: Страшимирово) is a village in north-eastern Bulgaria. It is located in the municipality of Beloslav, Varna Province Varna Province (), formerly known as Varna okrug, is a province in eastern Bulgaria, one ...

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