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The Kalofer massacre (Bulgarian: Калоферското клане) 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).[1]

  1. ^ Dimitrov 1900, pp. 212–216.

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