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. The conflict was part of a wider guerilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia. 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.
Seal of the CC of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization containing the motto Svoboda ili smart.
A Supreme Macedonian Committee's cheta during the Ilinden Uprising.
Seal of the Greek Macedonian Committee depicting Alexander the Great and Byzantine Emperor Basil II
Pavlos Melas in Macedonomachos uniform
Germanos Karavangelis was known for his service as Metropolitan Bishop of Kastoria and later Amaseia, Pontus. He was a member of the Hellenic Macedonian Committee and functioned as one of the major coordinators of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
Germanos Karavangelis at the grave of Pavlos Melas.
Germanos Karavangelis surrounded by Ottoman soldiers and officers in Kastoria.
The head of Lazar Poptraykov on the desk of Germanos Karavangelis (1903).