Supreme Macedonian Committee

Activity

Simultaneously a revolutionary organization of Thracian Bulgarian immigrants was founded in 1896 in Varna led by Petko Kiryakov. Only two months later in December 1896 in Burgas was convened the Congress of the Thracian emigration in the country called Strandzha. To perform its task a secret revolutionary committee was founded with the task to support the organization and to send armed bands in Ottoman Thrace. Once, in the next few years it sent several detachments in Strandzha and the Rhodopes. In 1899 the Supreme Macedonian Committee made to "Strandzha" the proposal for unification. This act was realized on the seventh Congress of Supreme Macedonian Committee (30 July-5 August 1900). The combined organization was called Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee. SMAC believed that liberation can be achieved with cooperation with Bulgaria and the Bulgarian army, and equated being Macedonian with being Bulgarian.