CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Valkov, Martin Veselinov |
|---|---|
| Title | The Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization and the Idea for Autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace, 1893-1912 |
| Summary | The current thesis narrates an important episode of the history of South Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century, namely the history of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization and its demand for political autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople region within the Ottoman Empire. I will trace down the origins of this idea from the foundation of the Organization in Ottoman Salonika in 1893, its subsequent evolution and its failure on the eve of the First Balkan War in 1912. I argue that in order to grasp the full conflicting potential of the question of Macedonian autonomy, it should be examined as a point of intersection between European diplomacy, Ottoman domestic affairs, the relations between the Balkan states, and the aspirations of the different national movements in the Empire. I will analyze how rather than being coherent idea autonomy meant different things to the different groups within the Macedonian revolutionary movement. For the most of the period and for the greater part of IMARO activists autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace was seen as a transitional phase towards future unification with Bulgaria based on the example of Eastern Rumelia. As for the other faction within the Organization autonomy was the first step towards Balkan Federation in a way similar to and influenced by the programs of the different Balkan social democratic circles. |
| Supervisor | Esmer, Tolga |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/valkov_martin-veselinov.pdf |
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