Cheta

Not to be confused with Chetniks or Chaeta.

Cheta (Bulgarian: чета, Macedonian: чета, Serbian: četa/чета, Turkish: çete) was an armed band, organized by the Christian population on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, aiming at anti-Turkish activity.[1] The cheta was usually led by a leader, called voivoda. The members of the chetas were called chetnik.[2]

References

  1. ^ The establishment of the Balkan national states, 1804-1920, Volume 8 from A History of East Central Europe, Barbara Jelavich, University of Washington Press, 1986, ISBN 0295964138, p. 135.
  2. ^ The war correspondence of Leon Trotsky: The Balkan Wars 1912-13, Author Leon Trotsky, Publisher Resistance Books, 1980, ISBN 0909196087, p. 227.

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