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 †	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; Enver Pasha;
Casualties and losses
	8,000 militants and civilians killed (1903–1908)

The Macedonian Struggle 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. From 1904 to 1908 the conflict was part of a wider guerrilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia and its Christian population. Particularly over the national affiliation of the Slavic population which was forced to declare themselves for either of the sides. 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.