# Unity Committee

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The **Unity Committee** (Bulgarian: Единство Комитет, *Edinstvo Komitet*, Macedonian: Комитет Единство, *Komitet Edinstvo*)[1] was an organization supporting the Bulgarian population of [Thrace](/source/Thrace) and [Macedonia](/source/Macedonia_(region)),[2][3] remained within the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) after the division of the [San Stefano Bulgaria](/source/Treaty_of_San_Stefano) and the decision of the [Berlin Treaty](/source/Treaty_of_Berlin_(1878)). First Committee "Unity" was established on August 29, 1878, in [Veliko Tarnovo](/source/Veliko_Tarnovo). Its main objective was enshrined in the Constitutive protocol: Unity of all Bulgarians and their wellness today. The initiative for this belonged to [Lyuben Karavelov](/source/Lyuben_Karavelov), [Stefan Stambolov](/source/Stefan_Stambolov) and [Hristo Ivanov - Golemia](/source/Hristo_Ivanov_-_Golemia). The goal of this new committee was to create such committees around the country of Bulgaria. Soon after *Edinstvo* was formed in Tarnovo, steps were taken to spread it to all towns in Bulgaria and [Eastern Rumelia](/source/Eastern_Rumelia) as well. People were also sent to Macedonia. As a consequence the [Kresna-Razlog Uprising](/source/Kresna-Razlog_Uprising) was organized.[4]

## References

1. Манол Пандевски (1978) Македонија и Македонците во годините на Источната криза 1876-1878 г. Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, стр. 55-56.

1. Anna M. Mirkova, 2017, Muslim Land, Christian Labor Transforming Ottoman Imperial Subjects Into Bulgarian National Citizens, 1878-1939, Central European University Press ISBN 9789633861615, p. 37.

1. *During the summer of 1878, a number of leading Bulgarians from Macedonia had gathered in Sofia to discuss how they might secure a revision of the Berlin Treaty, and they reached the conclusion that it was necessary to organize a massive armed uprising. The news of their deliberations inspired a group of patriots in Tŭrnovo to form a 'Unity Committee', with the aim of 'helping to improve the wretched condition of Bulgarians remaining outside the bounds of Danube Bulgaria.* For more: Mercia MacDermott (1978) Freedom or Death. The Life of Gotsé Delchev; The Journeyman Press, London & West Nyack, pp. 52-53.

1. Doyno Doynov. Kresna-Razlog uprising 1878-1879: On its scope and results, internal and external political circumstances in which it starts, continues, and ends. Sofia. 1979. Published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

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