Komitadji

As comitadji or Komiti ( Комитаджи Bulgarian, Turkish komitaci ) are designated members of an underground political movement or a revolutionary committees. The word derives from the bulgar. Комитет / Komitet or türk Komita for committee from.

The term history refers back to the Bulgarian national liberation movement of the 1860s, tried as a revolutionary committees from neighboring Serbia or Romania out, by sending guerrillas ( Tschetnizi ) to spark popular uprisings in Bulgaria, which were directed against the rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

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 members of the BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonia - Adrian Opeler Revolutionary Committee ) and its successor organizations, but in high extent of Komitadschis borne from Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece. The Young Turks who revolted in the 1890 - ren against the regime of the Sultan, continued the experience of Komitadschis. Even a politician who seeks to realize its goals on geheimbündlerische manner, thereby drawing violence as a political means in consideration is known as Komitaci.