Cheta (armed group)
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.