Secret Macedonian Committee

The Macedonian Society or Secret Macedonian Committee (Macedonian: Таен македонски комитет, romanized: Taen makedonski komitet; Serbian: Тајни македонски комитет, Tajni makedonski komitet), was secret organization established in 1885 by Macedonian Slavs in Sofia, Bulgaria, to promote а Slav Macedonian identity, distinguished especially from the ethnic identity of the Bulgarians, the establishment of the Archbishopric of Ohrid separate from the Bulgarian Exarchate and the promotion of the Macedonian language.

[1][2][3] Its leaders were Naum Evrov, Kosta Grupčev, Vasilij Karajovev and Temko Popov.

Some of its leaders went in the same year back to Belgrade, where the Government of Serbia established a cooperation with that ephemeral Macedonian Society.

[5] Through support to the Macedonian movement the Government of Serbia had intention to suppress the process of Bulgarisation of Macedonian Christian Slavs or to debulgarize them.

This compromise with the Serbian interests in Macedonia, led it later to abandonment of its separatist program altogether.