IMRO

The subject is the development of the Macedonian question in the frames of the British interests in Southeastern Europe after the First World War till outbreak of the Second World War.
The current work aims to analyze Foreign office policy regarding the Macedonian question in the interwar period and its reflection on the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the countries involved.  For that purpose the following tasks were set up:
- To review the trends and the vision of Great Britain towards the Macedonian question in the interwar period via focusing on the work of the British diplomats on field and the reflection of their work on the matter;
- To present the complexity of the Macedonian question and its impact on the countries in Southwestern Europe and the relevant influence on their relations;
- To reveal the acts of IMRO in their search for supporters among the Great Powers in order to execute their aim – autonomy of Macedonia - and the reaction of Foreign office to that;
- Chronologically to present the trends and the changes in British views towards the Macedonian question as they follow the historical acts in the interwar period.
In order to create more precise and objective analyses I use diplomatic correspondence between London and Sofia, Athens and Belgrade.

In this paper we present and analyze articles from over 100 newspapers worldwide , reporting on the death of the most prominent leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Gotse Delchev-in a skirmish with the Ottoman forces near the village of Banitsa. The presented articles were originally published in May and June 1903 in Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, Germany, the Russian Empire, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Australia and New Zealand.

The idea for an organised armed action - coordinated and supported by the Greek Kingdom and aimed against the Macedonian revolutionary organisation emerged few years before the Ilinden Uprising. During this period the Greek nationalistic circles in Greece and Ottoman Macedonia, primarily the official representatives of the Greek state and the Patriarchate of Constantinople, becoming aware about the threat against Hellenism repeatedly demanded changes in the policy concerning the Macedonian question, including for the Kingdom to send some armed groups. On the other hand, after the defeat by the Ottoman Empire in 1897 and until the Ilinden Uprising, the officials in Athens led utterly cautious policy with a constant tendency of building good-neighbourly relations with the Ottoman Porte. The Greek governments during this period acted with no clear national policy and without defined foreign and domestic programme, while the whole activity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was primarily oriented towards the problem of Crete. The Greek official policy strived for and hoped that the Ottoman civil and military authorities were going to protect their interests in Macedonia, a practice which was giving results to a certain extent.

CHAPTER ONE
IMRO Establishment and Activity in the Pirin region (1919-1924)...........8
1. IMRO resuming and converting it into a supporting organization. Initial activities......................................................................................8
2. IMRO and all Bulgarians’ political .......31
3. IMRO crisis and imposed stabilization of the Pirin supporting base..................54
CHAPTER  TWO
IMRO State in the Bulgarian South-West (1925-1928).......................90
1. Preparation for the new stage of organizational administration...90
2. IMRO forensic and criminal activity...............................................107
3. IMRO new tax system in the Third Bulgarian Kingdom................227
4. IMRO armed forces in the Pirin region .........................................141
Notes to chapter two .........................................................................164
CHAPTER THREE
The Liberation Movement of Macedonian Bulgarians in the Petrich region  (1928-1934)........175
1. Macedonian parliamentary group – IMRO legal manifestation.....175
2. Militant institute or IMRO people‘s army in Bulgarian.....................192
3. IMRO cultural and economic construction.......................................206 
4. Great Macedonian convention and the end of organizational regime...217
CONCLUSION ......................................................................249
SUMMARY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE...................................256

The paper deals with the formation and the activities of the so-called Romanian armed bands in Ottoman Macedonia, during the later stages of the Macedonian Struggle. These bands were consisted of pro-Romanian Vlachs from Macedonia and their main assignment was to fight the Greek bands of andartes and to protect the pro-Romanian communities. The paper analyses the key factors behind the decision to send “Romanian” armed bands in Macedonia, as well as the role of the Romanian state and the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the creation, funding and disbandment of these bands.

Сажетак: У раду се бавимо активностима македонске револуционарне органи-зације (ВМРО) у Албанији, тачније њеним деловањем са територије Албаније против југословенске државе током 1920-их година. Бавићемо се и везама маке-донског и албанског сепаратистичког покрета, као и активностима југословенске дипломатије усмереним на сузбијање македонског деловања у Албанији. Пока-заћемо да је македонска акција у Албанији представљала континуирани проблем југословенско-албанских билатералних односа, али и безбедносни изазов за југословенске власти. Истраживање је базирано на необјављеној архивској грађи из фондова Архива Југославије, објављеним изворима, штампи и историограф-ској литератури.
Кључне речи: Краљевина СХС, Албанија, ВМРО, Косовски комитет, спољна политикa