Abstract:

Bulgaria, which turned to be a principality dependant to the Ottoman Empire after the Turko-Russian wars in 1877-1878, continued its ambitions for being an independent state, by annexing the Eastern Rumeli and Macedonia regions and developed some policies. The primary supporter of these activities was the Bulgarian Exarchate in the capital of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, revolutionary organizations were established for the same purpose in Macedonia. The interacting trio Exarchate, Principality and secret organizations united for same target: To embody Macedonia to the Principality lands and to establish independent Bulgaria. For this reason, the Principality and the clergy working in the Exarchate subsidized all kinds of help and support to the revolutionary committees just after the Berlin Treaty (1878), and encouraged them by propagating ideas for independence among Bulgarians. However, relations of the Exarchate and the Bulgarian Principality with the Macedonian revolutionary groups were not always at good terms. Serious problems came into sight between the Exarchate and the terrorist groups from the beginning of 1900. This study deals with some blind correspondences which contain respective problems between the Bulgarian Exarchate and the Bulgarian Principality, and shows how the Bulgarian Exarchate, being an official institution of the Empire, acted for separatist political purposes

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