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Bulgarian Officers' Brotherhoods
Bulgarian officers' brotherhoods known also as Bulgarian liberation fraternities was a clandestine military organization created at the end of the 19th century in Bulgarian army with the aim of drawing Bulgaria into a war with the Ottoman Empire. Their ultimate goal was the freedom of the region of Macedonia, territory of Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace. The brotherhoods played a significant role in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan revolutionary movement until the beginning of the Balkan Wars. Activity The first clandestine society was established by Bulgarian army officers in Veliko Tarnovo, Tarnovo in 1897. A second company appeared in Ruse, Bulgaria, Ruse, and then in Sliven, Razgrad, Vratsa, Dobrich, Varna, Bulgaria, Varna and other places.The organization distributed a manifesto in which it invited all Bulgarian officers from Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace to join its ranks. The fraternities were led by the Sofia Society. By 1900, the members of the fraternities were ca. 1,000 ...
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