Komitadji
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Komitadji, Comitadji, or Komita (plural: Komitadjis, Comitadjis, or Komitas) (
chetas) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire. The name itself originates from Turkish
and translates as "committee members".
Komitadji fought against the Turkish authorities and were supported by the governments of the neighbouring states, especially Bulgaria.[1]
Komitadji was used to describe the members of the
Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees and the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee called by the Turks simply the Bulgarian Committees.[6]
In interwar Greece and
Second World War this name was used to designate the members of the pro-Bulgarian Ohrana active in Northern Greece.[8]
Other uses
- The name of FK Vardar and RK Vardar's main ultras group is Komiti.[9]
- Komitadji was the name given to a space-travelling warship of the Earth-based Pax Empire in the science-fiction novel Angelmass (TOR Books, 2001) by Timothy Zahn.
See also
- Hajduk
- Chetnik
- Makedonomachoi
References
- ISBN 0416747302, p. 71.
The word komitadji is Turkish, meaning literally "committee man". It came to be used for the guerilla bands, which, subsidized by the governments of the Christian Balkan states, especially of Bulgaria.
- ISBN 975160544X, p. 232.
- ^ Христо Марков Йонков, Числен, социален и класов състав на революционерите в Априлското възстание 1876: Историко-социологическо изследване на ІV революционен окръг. Изд. на Българската академия на науките, 1993, стр. 34.
- ISBN 1462838111, p. 20.
- ISBN 1442206632, p. 11.
- ISBN 0810862956, p. Ivii.
- ^ The Comitadji Question in Southern Serbia, Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, Hazell, 1924.
- ISBN 185065381X, p. 69.
- ^ FootballDerbies.com - Komiti