Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee

The Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), (Bulgarian: Върховен македоно - одрински комитет, (ВМОК)), also known as the Supreme Macedonian Committee was a Bulgarian paramilitary and political organization, active in Bulgaria as well as in Macedonia and Thrace regions of the Ottoman Empire.

Later they directed their efforts in activities for involving the country into war with the Ottoman Empire as for example during the Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action in 1895, and the Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising in 1902.

Several months after the formation of the Supreme Committee, the latter formed several detachments out of Bulgarian emigrants, revolutionaries, soldiers and officers from the army, almost all of them born in Macedonia or Thrace.

During the Ilinden Uprising insurgent detachments of the Supreme Committee, held down a large Turkish force.

These actions began on the day of the Feast of the Cross and did not involve the local population as much as in other regions, and were well to the east of Monastir and to the west of Thrace.

Statute of the Macedonian-Adrianople Organization, a general meeting of SMAC, 1900.
Chapter I. - Goal
Art. 1. The goal of MAO is to secure political autonomy for the Macedonia and Adrianople regions...
General Ivan Tsonchev 's Supreme Committee's band