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, composed mainly of Pomaks in Batak	3,000-5,000[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	18,000[3][4]	Bulgarian civilians

Remains from the Stara Zagora massacre

References

1. https://www.britannica.com/event/Bulgarian-Horrors
2. Crowe, D. (2016-04-30). A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia. ISBN 9781349606719.
3. http://members.tripod.com/nie_monthly/nie11_01/slaveikov.htm
4. Statistika (54 ed.). Indiana University. 2002. p. 35.