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comitadji|kɒmɪˈtædʒɪ|
Also kom-, -adje, -aji, -aggi.
[Common Balkan form, ad. Turkish komitaci, f. komita, f. F. comité committee, + -dji; lit. member of a committee.]
In the Balkans, a member of a band of (esp. Bulgarian) irregular soldiers or partisans.
1903Times 5 Sept. 7 The Komitajis and the Turks have made a desert of the disturbed vilayets between them. 1908Daily Chron. 30 Oct. 4/6 Lately they had to resist the ferocity of the comitajis. 1909Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 1/3 A band of ‘Comittaggis’ or Macedonian freebooters. 1920Glasgow Herald 18 Mar. 9 The Montenegrin comitadjes..are gradually giving in. 1923Daily Mail 16 Feb. 8 The Bulgarian Comitadjis. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 762/1 A violent rivalry now began between various national bands of comitadjis, the most powerful being the famous Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. |