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Bulgarian Officers' Brotherhoods

Stamp of the first Bulgarian liberation brotherhood in Tarnovo
Commemorative postcard on the occasion of the death of the officers Stoyanov, Sugarev and Milev. They perished in a battle with Ottoman troops on April 28, 1903, near Gabrovo.

Bulgarian officers' brotherhoods known also as Bulgarian liberation fraternities was a clandestine military organization created at the end of the 19th century in Bulgarian army with the aim of drawing Bulgaria into a war with the Ottoman Empire. Their ultimate goal was the freedom of the territory of Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace. The brotherhoods played a significant role in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan revolutionary movement until the beginning of the Balkan Wars.[1]

  1. ^ Елдъров, Светлозар. Тайните офицерски братства в освободителните борби на Македония и Одринско 1897 - 1912. София, Военно издателство, 2002. ISBN 954-509-235-1. с. 11 - 30.

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