Komitaji
As comitadji ( Bulgarian Комитаджи , Turkish komitacı ) or Komiti ( Macedonian Комити ) are members called an underground political movement or a revolutionary committee. The word derives from the bulgar. Комитет / Komitet or Turkish komita for committee .
The history of the term refers back to the Bulgarian national liberation movement of the 1860s, when revolutionary committees from neighboring Serbia or Romania tried to spark popular uprisings in Bulgaria against the rule of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire by sending out rioters ( Tschetnizi ) .
The national disputes in the Macedonian and Thracian provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the following years up to the Balkan Wars of 1912/13 were not only initiated by members of the BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee ) and their successor organizations, but also to a large extent by Komitajis worn from Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece. The Young Turks , who revolted against the Sultan's regime in the 1890s, also followed up on the Komitaji's experience . A politician who seeks to achieve his goals in a secretive way and who considers violence as a political means is also known as a Komitaji.
literature
- Edgar Hösch , Karl Nehring, Holm Sundhaussen (ed.): Lexicon for the history of Southeast Europe . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-205-77193-1 . Pp. 370-371.