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
Burning and sack of Batak, 1876, by Charles Ricketts.
Ottoman bashi-bazouk, 1877-78
Postcard depicting human remains from the Batak massacre. Author and date of the postcard is unknown.
Batak's St. Nedelya Church in the 1880s
Batak is a town in Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria, not far from the town of Peshtera. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Batak Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a
Batak massacre
…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…
Батак panoramio Nikolai Karaneschev
The Russian church in Batak.
The monument of Trendafil Balinov.