Carrentian Massacres
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| Location | Kingdom of Illyricum |
| Date | January 18, 1624 - May 3, 1625 (1 year, 2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) |
| Target | Cauvunianists, Catholics |
Attack type | Genocide, Religious Cleansing |
| Deaths | c. 450,000 |
| Perpetrators | Appius Carrentus |
| Motive | Anti-religious sentiment, political power move |
| Part of a series on |
| Cauvunianism |
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The Carrentian Massacres (Illyrian Iberic: Carençaeos Masacreos, Romanyan Iberic: Carrentian Massacrios) were a series of anti-religious attacks and massacres in the Kingdom of Illyricum led by Imperial Regent Appius Carrentus from 1624 to his assassination on May 3, 1625. The massacres killed around 450,000 people, and are the deadliest series of attacks in the history of Illyricum. The attacks stemmed from an outpouring of anti-religious sentiment in Illyricum following the Illyrian War of Succession in the mid sixteenth century and the Cauvunianist Reformation. Appius Carrentus led a coup and overthrew the Cauvunianist regent Mercius Parnethus in 1624, after which he declared "Occedete omnes qui adorant" (Jackian: Kill all who worship). Carrentus was assassinated by King Octavus I on May 3, 1625, who would end the massacres, however the Cauvunianist population never recovered, and the Catholic population only recovered after the Montcrabin colonization of Illyricum in 1660.
