Cheta

Not to be confused with Chetniks, Chaeta, or Kheta River.
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization cheta in Osogovo (March 1903).

A Cheta (Albanian: çeta, Bulgarian: чета, Serbian: чета/četa, Turkish: çete, Greek: τσέτης) was an armed band organized by the mostly Bulgarian, Serbian, Orthodox Christian population on the territory of the Ottoman Empire that undertook anti-Turkish activity.[1] The cheta was usually led by a leader, called voivoda. The members of the chetas were called chetniks.[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 0-295-96413-8, p. 135.
  2. ↑ The war correspondence of Leon Trotsky: The Balkan Wars 1912-13, Author Leon Trotsky, Publisher Resistance Books, 1980, ISBN 0-909196-08-7, p. 227.

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