Internal Revolutionary Organization

Internal Revolutionary Organization
Вътрешна Революционна Организация
Democratic republicanism
Part of	National awakening of Bulgaria
Opponents	Ottoman Empire

The Internal Revolutionary Organisation (IRO; Bulgarian: Вътрешна Революционна Организация (ВРО), romanized: Vatrešna Revolyutsionna Organizatsiya (VRO)) was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded and built up by Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski in the period between 1869 and 1871. The organisation represented a network of regional revolutionary committees which were governed by a Central Committee in the town of Lovech. The foundation of IRO reflected Levski's ideas that the centre of revolutionary activity be transferred from the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania to Bulgaria proper. In 1871, Levski prepared the Charter of the organisation in the spirit of his own political views: liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottomans through a nationwide revolution and establishment of the country as a democratic republic with guarantees for the equality of all of its citizens regardless of their ethnicity or religion.

By the end of 1872, both Levski and

• Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
• Macedonian Secret Revolutionary Committee
• Vasil Levski

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• Historical dictionary of Bulgaria, Item 46 of European historical dictionaries, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006,
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• Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero, Maria N. Todorova, Central European University Press, 2008,
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• The establishment of the Balkan national states, 1804-1920, Volume 8, A History of East Central Europe, Barbara Jelavich, University of Washington Press, 1986, pp. 136-137
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