Komitadji

Komitadji, Comitadji, or Komita (plural: Komitadjis, Comitadjis, or Komitas) (Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian: Комити, Komiti, Romanian: Comitagiu, Greek: Κομιτατζής, plural: Κομιτατζήδες, romanized: Komitatzḗs, pl.

Komitatzḗdes, Turkish: Komitacı, Albanian: Komit) was a collective name for members of various rebel bands (chetas) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire.

Komitadjis fought against the Turkish authorities and were supported by the governments of the neighbouring states, especially Bulgaria.

[6] In interwar Greece and Yugoslavia, the term was used to refer to bands organized by the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation and Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation, which operated in Vardar and Aegean Macedonia and Western Thrace.

[7] In interwar Romania, the term was used to refer to bands organized by the pro-Bulgarian Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation, which attacked the Romanian outposts and the Aromanian colonists in Southern Dobruja.