Abstract:

Bulgaria, which was autonomous by the Treaty of Berlin signed as a result of the 1877-1878 Ottoman Russian War, wanted to possess the territories granted to it by the Treaty of Ayestefanos, which was signed before the Treaty, but terminated, and to realize the ideal of "Great Bulgaria". In 1885 the achievement of the "Sarkî Rumeli" was one that the Ottoman State had to accept, and it gave the "Great Bulgaria" confidence that the Bulgarian advanced and the government could take a more determined step on the way of the construction. In the years ahead, this has started the process of armed actions through committees and gangs to Macedonia, which is the second important step in the subject of the “Great Bulgaria”. The most important development in this process, where the armed struggle plays the main role and the bloody terrorist actions are carried out, was the establishment of the Internal Macedonia-Trakya Revolutionary Organization (VMORO) in 1893 in Thessaloniki and the High Macedonia-Trakya Committee (VMOK) in 1895 in Sofia. From these two committees, VMORO operated legal and administratively under the administration of the Ottoman State in the Villayât-i Selâse (Kosova, Monastery, Thessaloniki provinces) or better known in Macedonia, while VMOK operated throughout the autonomous state of Bulgaria. The academic studies on the "Macedonian issue" contain important information about the organizing work of these two committees and the actions they carry out. However, in the important cities of northeastern Bulgaria, such as Ruschuk, Silistre, Varna, there is no sufficient information about how these committees are organized, which sub-faces they are divided, how the Bulgarian people, their committees, and the government have a place in the struggle under the "Macedonian issue". Even given the general consideration of the studies in literature, it should be noted that the committee organizations in the cities of northeastern Bulgaria immediately did not attract the attention of researchers. From this background included in this study, Varna, which has a vibrant life of the press and commercial mobility and is also an important center of communication and transportation facilities, has focused on what names the Bulgarian-Macedonian committees are established, who are their leaders, and what kind of activities they are carrying out.

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