A decade of growing rural discontent and…
1899 CE
A decade of growing rural discontent and resentment in Bulgaria against the intellectual and governing class results in the founding of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union in 1899.
Macedonia constitutes the principal objective of King Ferdinand's diplomacy.
To strengthen its claim to Macedonia against its rivals Serbia and Greece, Bulgaria establishes a Macedonian Commission in 1899.
Run from the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, the commission's object is to make Macedonia autonomous but controlled, with the permission of the Ottoman Empire, by a Bulgarian inspector.