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The Batak massacre was a massacre of Bulgarians in the town of Batak by Ottoman irregular cavalry troops in 1876, at the beginning of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876.The estimate for the number of casualties ranges from 1,200 to 8,000, depending on source, with the most common estimate being 5,000 casualties.
The Stara Zagora massacre (Bulgarian: Старозагорско клане) was the mass murder of approx. 14,000 civilian Bulgarians, accompanied by the burning and complete destruction of the City of Stara Zagora on 31 July–2 August [O.S. 19–21 July] 1877, committed by regular Ottoman troops commanded by Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, during the eponymous battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1877 ...
Mass execution of Serbs in retaliation for the death of a Bulgarian soldier. [201] Velika massacre: 28 July 1944 Velika, near Plav: 428+ SS-"Skanderbeg" Massacre of Serbs, mostly children, women and elderly, by Albanian SS members during Operation Draufgänger. [219] Zagniezde and Udora massacre: 11 September 1944
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.
When Serbian forces entered Bitola, they killed Turkish patients to make room for injured Serbs. [4] Massacre at Ohrid 1913 Ohrid: 650 Serbian forces Bulgarians, Turks, and Albanians Serbian forces killed 150 Bulgarians and 500 Albanians and Turks. [5] Kokošinje murders 1904 Kokošinje 53 Bulgarian forces Serbs Bulgarian forces killed 53 Serbs ...
Their reports of the events, which came to be known in the press as the Bulgarian Horrors and the Crime of the Century, caused a public outcry across Europe and mobilised both common folks and famous intellectuals to demand a reform of the failed Ottoman model of governance of the Bulgarian lands.
The town is known for its alleged paranormal activity. In the early 1990s, it was nicknamed "Bulgaria's Area 51" [2] due to the local "Tsarichina Hole". This hole was dug by the Ministry of Defence of Bulgaria, who excavated an area in the center of the village during a project active from 6 December 1990 to 19 November 1992.
Members of the Serbian intelligentsia in the region, mostly functionaries, teachers, priests and former soldiers, were detained by Bulgarian forces—ostensibly so that they could be deported to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia—before being taken into the forests around Surdulica and killed. An estimated 2,000–4,000 Serbian men were executed by ...