The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Ottoman Bulgaria (13961878). 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.
EventMassacre nameDatePerpetratorDeathsTargetApril UprisingKoprivshtitsa massacre27–28 May 1876local Bulgarians70Muslim RomaApril Uprising Batak massacre1876Ottoman irregular troops7,000Bulgarian civiliansBoyadzhik massacreCircassian paramilitaries (bashi-bazouk)145Bulgarian non-combatant civilians Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)Stara Zagora massacre1877–78Suleiman Pasha's Ottoman Army, composed mainly of 48,000 Albanian troops14,500Bulgarian civilians The Terror (Karlovo massacre)22–23 July 1877Circassian paramilitaries 288Kalofer massacre26–28 July 18771,600Kavarna massacre21 July–8 August 18771,000Bulgarian, Gagauz, Greek civiliansKazanlak massacreDecember 1877Russian Empire, Bulgarians1,751 killed, 54 injured, 173 abducted, 270 missingTurkish civiliansHarmanli massacre16–17 January 18782,000-5,000Muslim civilians (mostly Turkish)
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