Bulgarian-Macedonian Committee founded in Thessaloniki in 1893

In 1893, the Bulgarian-Macedonian Committee was established in Thessaloniki by six Bulgarian intellectuals: Dr. Hristo Tatarchev, Damyan Gruev, Ivan Hadzhinikolov, Petar Popparsov, Hristo Batandzhiev, and Andon Dimitrov. The initial meeting was unofficial, lacking formal protocols or elected leadership.

The group's primary objectives were to fight for liberation and to counter Serbian and Greek propaganda. Originally referred to as the ‘Committee for the Acquisition of the Political Rights of Macedonia, granted by the Berlin Treaty,’ the organization later adopted its first statute based on the regulations of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee.

The committee facilitated the publication of revolutionary newspapers such as ‘Na oruzhie’ and ‘Buntovnik’ and established internal rules for local revolutionary committees. Its activities spanned the Thessaloniki, Bitola, Skopje, Edirne, and Constantinople vilayets. October 23 is observed as the Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle and is a national holiday in North Macedonia.