During the summer of 1906, an anti-Greek movement manifested itself in Bulgarian cities and villages where there were Greek communities, especially on the coast of the Black sea and Eastern Romelia. Rallies were organized with pickets and resolutions of protest. As a result of this persecution, the Greek communities dissolved, their property was encroached and most Greeks migrated from Bulgaria.

The famous Russian-Turkish treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774) radically changed the geopolitical status of the era, whereas its terms had a drastic influence to the fortunes of the Greek world too. The Greeks under the legal protection of the treaty improved their living conditions and created the necessary requirements for the emancipation from Ottoman rule.

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