List of massacres in Ottoman Bulgaria

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Remains from the Stara Zagora massacre

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, composed mainly of Pomaks in Batak 4,000-100,000 [2] Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) Stara Zagora massacre 1877-78 Suleiman Pasha's Ottoman Army, composed mainly of 48,000 Albanian troops 180,000[3][4] Bulgarian civilians
Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) Harmanli massacre 1877-1878 Russian Army 2,000[5] Muslim civilians

References

  1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/event/Bulgarian-Horrors
  2. ↑ https://books.google.bg/books?id=Me8YDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&dq=100+000+bulgarians+massacred&hl=bg&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1nMqWyfLNAhWKsxQKHeOoCukQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=100%20000%20bulgarians%20massacred&f=false
  3. ↑ http://members.tripod.com/nie_monthly/nie11_01/slaveikov.htm
  4. ↑ Statistika (54 ed.). Indiana University. p. 35.
  5. ↑ Medlicott, William Norton (2013-10-28). Congress of Berlin and After. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 9781136243172.
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