List of massacres in Ottoman Bulgaria

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Bulgaria and its predecessors:

Event Most significant massacre Date Perpetrator Deaths Target
April Uprising[1] Batak massacre 1876 Ottoman irregular troops 7,000[2] Bulgarian civilians
Boyadzhik massacre 1876 Circassian paramilitaries (bashi-bazouk) 145[3][4] Bulgarian non-combatant civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) Stara Zagora massacre 1877–78 Suleiman Pasha's Ottoman Army, composed mainly of 48,000 Albanian troops 14,500[5][6] Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) The Terror (Karlovo massacre) 22-23 Jult 1877 Circassian paramilitaries 288[7] Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Kalofer massacre 26–28 July Circassian paramilitaries 618 slaughtered, 1,000 died of the elements[8] Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Harmanli massacre 16–17 January 1878 Russian Empire 2,000-5,000[9] Muslim civilians
First Balkan War Strumnitsa 1912 Serbian Army 3,000-4,000[10] Muslim civilians
First Balkan War Kukush October, 30 1912 Bulgarian Komitadji 700 burned + up to 2,000 slaughter[11] Disarmed Ottoman Soldiers^
Second Balkan War Serres September 5, 1913. Bulgarian Army 600[12][13] Turkish civilians^

Remains from the Stara Zagora massacre

References
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  7. Dimitrov, Georgi (1900). Княжество България в историческо, географическо и етнографическо отношение. Продължение от част ІІ. По руско-турската война през 1877-78 г. [Historical, Geographic and Ethnographic Data on the Principality of Bulgaria. Continued from Part II. On the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78] (in Bulgarian). Plovdiv. p. 194.
  8. Dimitrov, Georgi (1900). Княжество България в историческо, географическо и етнографическо отношение. Продължение от част ІІ. По руско-турската война през 1877-78 г. [Historical, Geographic and Ethnographic Data on the Principality of Bulgaria. Continued from Part II. On the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78] (in Bulgarian). Plovdiv. p. 218.
  9. Medlicott, William Norton (2013-10-28). Congress of Berlin and After. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-136-24317-2.
  10. "Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars". The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 277. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
  11. "Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars". The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 279. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
  12. "Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars". The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 280. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
  13. "Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars". The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 280. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
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