Komitadji (also known as Comitadji or Komitaji) (Bulgarian Комити; Romanian: Comitagiu; from Turkish: Komitacı, "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society" [1]) is a member of a guerrilla band operating in Aegean Macedonia at the time occupied by Ottoman Turks, endeavouring by violent means to forcibly "convince" local population to declare Bulgarian ethnicity and convert to Exarchate allegiance.
In interwar Romania, the term was used to refer to the bands organized by the Bulgarian Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation which attacked the Romanian outposts and the Aromanian colonists in Southern Dobruja.
Trivia
- The word Komitadji is also the basis of the title for supporters of FK Vardar[1] and PFC Belasitsa Petrich, which are called "Komiti".
- 'Komitadji' was the name given to a space-travelling warship of the Earth-based Pax Empire in the Science-Fiction novel 'Angelmass' (TOR Books, 2001) by Timothy Zahn.