On 12 August 1875, the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCC, made the decision to prepare the entire people of Bulgaria for an uprising.

The leader of the Stara Zagora Uprising and region was Stefan Stambolov, who is considered one of the founders of Modern post-Ottoman Bulgaria.

Some members of the committee, however, did not entirely agree on the proper timing of the Uprising and wanted to wait.

[1] Because of this disunion of opinions, on 16 September in Stara Zagora, not enough rebels gathered to support the cause.

Some of the rebels hid or left the country, whereas others were chased by the Turks, such as the brothers Mihail and Georgi Zhekov.