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The Internal Revolutionary Organisation or IRO was a Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
n revolutionary organisation founded and built up by Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski
Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski was the nickname of Vasil Ivanov Kunchev , a Bulgarians revolutionary renowned as the national hero of Bulgaria and styled the Apostle of Freedom....
 in the period between 1869 and 1871. The organisation represented a network of regional revolutionary committees which were governed by a Central Committee in the town of Lovech
Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of about 50,000. Lovech is the administrative centre of Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech municipality, and is located 150 km from the capital city of Sofia....
. The foundation of IRO reflected Levski’s ideas that the centre of revolutionary activity be transferred from the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 to Bulgaria proper.

In 1871, Levski prepared the Charter of the organisation in the spirit of his own political views: liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottomans
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 through a nation-wide revolution and establishment of the country as a democratic republic with guarantees for the equality of all of its citizens regardless of their ethnicity or religion.

By the end of 1871, both Levski and Lyuben Karavelov
Lyuben Karavelov

Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival.Karavelov was born in Koprivshtitsa....
, the chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCK was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded in 1869 among the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania....
 (BRCK), had figured out that the future success of the armed struggle against the Ottomans depended on the co-operation of both emigration and internal committees.






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The Internal Revolutionary Organisation or IRO was a Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
n revolutionary organisation founded and built up by Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski
Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski was the nickname of Vasil Ivanov Kunchev , a Bulgarians revolutionary renowned as the national hero of Bulgaria and styled the Apostle of Freedom....
 in the period between 1869 and 1871. The organisation represented a network of regional revolutionary committees which were governed by a Central Committee in the town of Lovech
Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of about 50,000. Lovech is the administrative centre of Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech municipality, and is located 150 km from the capital city of Sofia....
. The foundation of IRO reflected Levski’s ideas that the centre of revolutionary activity be transferred from the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 to Bulgaria proper.

In 1871, Levski prepared the Charter of the organisation in the spirit of his own political views: liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottomans
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 through a nation-wide revolution and establishment of the country as a democratic republic with guarantees for the equality of all of its citizens regardless of their ethnicity or religion.

By the end of 1871, both Levski and Lyuben Karavelov
Lyuben Karavelov

Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival.Karavelov was born in Koprivshtitsa....
, the chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCK was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded in 1869 among the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania....
 (BRCK), had figured out that the future success of the armed struggle against the Ottomans depended on the co-operation of both emigration and internal committees. To this end, the two organisations prepared and adopted a joint programme and charter and voted on the merger of the two organisations under the name of BRCK at a general meeting held in Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
 in May, 1872. (see also Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCK was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded in 1869 among the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania....
)

The goals and fundamental principles which governed the work of the Internal Revolutionary Organisation influenced the formation and guiding principles of subsequent Bulgarian revolutionary organisations, namely the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (active in the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1912, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (active in Greek and Yugoslav Macedonia
Macedonia (region)

Macedonia is a geographical and Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century....
 from 1919 to 1941), the Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation
Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation

The Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation , ITRO, was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation active in Western Thrace and southern Bulgaria between 1922 and 1934....
 (active in Western Thrace
Western Thrace

Thrace is a geographic and historical regions of Greece of Greece, located between the Mesta River and Maritsa rivers in the northeast of the country....
 from 1922 to 1934), the Internal Dobrudjan Revolutionary Organisation (active in Dobrudja from 1923 to 1940) and the Internal Western Outland Revolutionary Organisation
Internal Western Outland Revolutionary Organisation

The Internal Western Outland Revolutionary Organization , IWORO, was a Bulgarian revolutionary organization active in the Western Outlands between 1921 and 1941 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , and then its successor, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....
 (active in the Western Outlands
Western Outlands

The Western Outlands is a term used by Bulgarians to describe several territorially separate regions currently in southeastern Serbia and eastern Republic of Macedonia which at one point passed directly from Bulgaria to Yugoslavia....
 from 1921 to 1941).

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  • Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
    Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

    The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCK was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded in 1869 among the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania....
  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski

    Vasil Levski was the nickname of Vasil Ivanov Kunchev , a Bulgarians revolutionary renowned as the national hero of Bulgaria and styled the Apostle of Freedom....