Macedonian Struggle

Macedonian Struggle
Part of the decline of the Ottoman Empire
The geographical region of Macedonia as defined in the 1800s
Date 1893–1912 (19 years) Location Ottoman Macedonia Salonika Vilayet Monastir Vilayet Kosovo Vilayet Result Bulgarian and Greek dominance Rise of the Serbian Chetniks
Belligerents
HMC Greek Patriarchate Supported by: Greece Serbian Chetniks Supported by:  Serbia SCMR Supported by:  Romania	IMRO SMAC BSRB Bulgarian Exarchate Supported by:  Bulgaria Albanian Cheta  Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ion Dragoumis Germanos Karavangelis Lambros Koromilas Pavlos Melas † Kottas Christou  Gonos Yiotas † Milorad Gođevac Gligor Sokolović † Jovan Babunski Aksentije Bacetić † Ștefan Mihăileanu †[1]	Gotse Delchev † Dame Gruev † Hristo Tatarchev Yane Sandanski Vasil Chakalarov Apostol Petkov † Marko Lerinski † Idriz Seferi Abdul Hamid II Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha Mahmud Shevket Pasha
Casualties and losses
8,000 militants and civilians killed (1903–1908)[2]

The Macedonian Struggle (Bulgarian: Македонска борба, romanized: Makedonska borba; Greek: Μακεδονικός Αγώνας, romanized: Makedonikós Agónas; Macedonian: Борба за Македонија, romanized: Borba za Makedonija; Serbian: Борба за Македонију, romanized: Borba za Makedoniju; Turkish: Makedonya Mücadelesi) was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. The conflict was part of a wider guerilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia. Gradually the Greek and Bulgarian bands gained the upper hand. Though the conflict largely ceased by the Young Turk Revolution, it continued as a low intensity insurgency until the Balkan Wars.