[1] It is reported that revolutionary outbreaks in the same year, are located alongside Macedonia in Epirus, Thessaly and Crete, seeking union with the Greek state.

[2] We have come to proclaim ... that being Macedonians and descendants of those noble bearers of culture to Asia, we in no way wish nor accept that our homeland should become a part of Bulgaria ... We the inhabitants of Stroumnitsa do not wish to be subjected to any Slavic yoke, for we are and wish to be Macedonians and a steadfast member of the great Greek Family ... At all events, we fell that the blood of Philip and Alexander courses through our veins ... we swear on the sacred and holy name of Macedonia and on our honour that to defend our Macedonian homelands we will brandish even our bare chests against the invaders.

In the summer of 1878, about 15,000 armed men escalated a guerrilla war in the mountains of Western Macedonia from Kozani to Monastir.

The Macedonian Revolution of 1878 did not achieve its purpose, but the opposition of the Greek population of Macedonia to the annexation to a Greater Bulgaria was documented internationally, and also the diplomatic position of Greece and those countries opposed to the Treaty of San Stefano was strengthened.

In response to this development, the Bulgarian population of Macedonia rose similarly in the autumn of 1878 in regions of Kresna and Razlog, but to no avail.