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The term Komiti (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian: Комити, Romanian: Comitagiu, Greek: komitatzides, Turkish: Komitacı, Albanian: Komitaji) meaning "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society"[1], refers to members of rebel bands operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire, fighting against Turkish authorities in Macedonia. The term is often employed to refer to groups associated with the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
In interwar Romania, the term was used to refer to the bands organized by the Bulgarian Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation which attacked the Romanian outposts and the Aromanian colonists in Southern Dobruja.
Other uses
- 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
References
Categories:- Rebel militia groups
- Words of Turkish origin
- Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire
- Militias in Europe
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