What the records say
- When
- Jul 1878
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 42.61° N, 24.97° E
- Description
- Ottoman massacre of Bulgarian civilians
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Kalofer massacre
Ottoman massacre of Bulgarian civilians
The Kalofer massacre was the massacre of a total of 618 civilian Bulgarians, accompanied by the looting and arson of the village of Kalofer, suffered in two waves at the hands of Circassian bashi-bazouk in the course of July 1877, as part of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878).
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