Topic summary
Chetas
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cheta (armed group).
Context and terminology
The leader of Slavic chetas were generally referred to as a voivoda. Leaders of Greek chetas referred to them as the kapetan or kapetanios. The members of chetas were generally called 'chetniks', though members of Bulgarian chetas were known as Komitadjis, while members of Greek chetas have been referred to as Armatoles, Klepht, Andartes, or Makedonomachoi (in the period of the Macedonian Struggle)