List of massacres in Ottoman Bulgaria

Remains from the Stara Zagora massacre

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Ottoman Bulgaria (1396–1878). All events and massacres should be notable and linked to the appropriate article; if no article exists for an individual massacre, references must be provided for the massacre. Names of massacres should follow the article titles; if none exists, a consensus of the massacre name in English language reliable sources should be used.

Event	Massacre name	Date	Perpetrator	Deaths	Target
April Uprising	Koprivshtitsa massacre	27-28 May 1876	local Bulgarians	70	Muslim Roma[1][2]
April Uprising[3]	Batak massacre	1876	Ottoman irregular troops	7,000[4]	Bulgarian civilians
	Boyadzhik massacre	1876	Circassian paramilitaries (bashi-bazouk)	145[5][6]^[better source needed]	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[7][8]	Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)	The Terror (Karlovo massacre)	22-23 July 1877	Circassian paramilitaries	288[9]	Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)	Kalofer massacre	26–28 July	Circassian paramilitaries	1,600[10]	Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)	Kavarna massacre	21 July–8 August 1877	Circassian paramilitaries	1,000[11]	Bulgarian, Gagauz, Greek civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)	Kazanlak massacre	December 1877	Russian Empire, Bulgarians	1,751 killed, 54 injured, 173 abducted, 270 missing[12]	Turkish civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)	Harmanli massacre	16–17 January 1878	Russian Empire, Bulgarians	2,000-5,000[13]	Muslim civilians (mostly Turkish)

References

1. "Априлското въстание: позор или подвиг?". frognews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-01-11. Копривщенци се настроили срещу циганите и за да не ги сполети случилото се в Клисура, решили въпроса „радикално". През нощта на 27 срещу 28 април ги изкарали от домовете им, навързали ги и решили да ги избият. (...) Така всички цигани от Копривщица били убити без да имат вина, и то пред очите на жените и децата им. [The people of Koprivshten turned against the Gypsies and, in order not to befall them what happened in Klisura, they resoled the issue "radically". On the night of April 27 and 28, they drove them [Gypsies] out of their homes, tied them up and decided to kill them. (...) Thus, all the Gypsies from Koprivshtitsa were killed without being guilty, and in front of their wives and children.]
2. Евтимий, Ахримандрит. Юбилеен сборник по миналото на Копривщица. Chardashko, in the folds of the valley, during the April Uprising, the rebels of Koprivshtitsa slaughtered about 70 Gypsies, because it was discovered that they were plotting against the uprising.
3. "Bulgarian Horrors | European history".
4. Crowe, D. (2016-04-30). A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Springer. ISBN 9781349606719.
5. "135 години от Бояджишкото клане през 1876 г." [135th Anniversary of the Boyadzhik Massacre]. Bulgarian Patriarchate. 18 May 2011.
6. "The first electronic computer with a binary number system. Forgotten ABC Project". Sudo Null company. 2019.
7. "Етнодемографска характеристика на българското население". members.tripod.com. Retrieved Dec 18, 2022.
8. Statistika (54 ed.). Indiana University. 2002. p. 35.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Aghanyan, Grigor; Bazeyan, Karine (2015). Dominik Gutmeyr (ed.). "National Minorities of Armenia during the Russo-Ottoman War". Balkanistic Forum. 3: 115–116. ISSN 1310-3970.
12. Irkıçatal, Eftal. İngiliz Belgelerinde 1877-78 Osmanlı-Rus Harbi Sırasında Yaşanan Kızanlık Katliamları.
13. Medlicott, William Norton (2013-10-28). Congress of Berlin and After. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-136-24317-2.