The Kavarna massacre (Bulgarian: Каварненското клане), also known as the Kavarna rebellion (Bulgarian: Каварненското въстание), refers to the near one-month (7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1877–8 August [O.S. 27 July] 1877) defence of the Black Sea town of Kavarna by its citizens and some 10,000 refugees from nearby villages against a band of 3,000 Circassian paramilitaries.[1][2][3]
Even though Kavarna's defence was ultimately unsuccessful, with some 1,000 civilian casualties and half the town burned to the ground, the uprising is famous for both its fierce, implacable resistance and the sheer number of different ethnicities that took part in it: Bulgarians, Gagauzes, Greeks, Armenians and even the local Muslim Turkish population.
- ^ Dalakmanska, Keranka (23 July 2022). "Над 100 души ще пресъздадат Каварненското въстание" [More Than One Hundred People Will Reenact the Kavarna Uprising]. Bulgarian National Radio.
- ^ Hristova, Yuliyana (15 July 2022). "Историческа възстановка "Защитата на Каварна - подвиг и мъжество" ще възкреси герои за 145-годишнината на Каварненското въстание" [Historic Reenactment of the Defence of Kavarna—Heroism and Valour—Will Resurrect Various Heroes for the 145th Anniversary of the Kavarna Uprising]. Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA).
- ^ Dimitrov 1900, pp. 98–115.