Makedonomachoi
| Macedonian Struggle | |||||||||
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 The geographical region of Macedonia |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Hellenic Macedonian CommitteeEthniki Etaireia |
 Internal Macedonian Revolutionary OrganizationSupreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee Bulgarian Secret Revolutionary Brotherhood Boatmen of Thessaloniki |
 Serbian Chetnik Organization
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 Ottoman Empire
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Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian Lambros Koromilas Ioannis Demestichas Georgios Katechakis Ion Dragoumis |
Apostol Petkov Dame Gruev Hristo Tatarchev |
Milorad Gođevac Baceta |
Abdul Hamid II Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 2,000 | |||||||||
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| >700 Fighters 1,250 Civilians |
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Draw
The Macedonian Struggle (Greek: Μακεδονικὸς Ἀγών, Makedhonikos Agon) or Greek Struggle in Macedonia (Bulgarian: Гръцка въоръжена пропаганда в Македония, "Greek armed propaganda in Macedonia") was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts between Greeks and Bulgarians in the region of Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1908. The conflict was part of a wider rebel war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia. Gradually the Greek bands gained the upper hand, but the conflict was ended by the Young Turk Revolution in 1908.
Initially the conflict was waged through educational and religious means, with a fierce rivalry developing between supporters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who generally identified as Greek, and supporters of the Bulgarian Exarchate, which had been established by the Ottomans in 1870.
As Ottoman rule in the Balkans crumbled in the late 19th century, competition arose between Greeks and Bulgarians (and to a lesser extent also other ethnic groups such as Serbs, Aromanians and Albanians) over the multi-ethnic region of Macedonia. The defeat of Greece in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 was a loss that appalled Greeks. The Ethniki Eteria was dissolved by Prime Minister Theotokis.
The fight for the independence of Macedonia started together with the Greek revolution in 1821. Several attempts though such as the uprising of Emmanouel Pappas in Chalilkidiki , in Naousa with Zafeirakis Theodosiou in 1822 as well as the failed 1878 Greek Macedonian rebellion were stopped by the Turks. On February 18, 1878, rebels from different parts of western Macedonia, formed in the Vourinos settlement, the "Provisional Government of Macedonian province of Elimeia" seeking the abolition of the Treaty of San Stefano and the Association of Macedonia with Greece. The summer of 1878, about 15,000 armed men escalated a guerrilla war in the mountains of Western Macedonia from Kozani to Bitola.
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