Damjan Gruew

Damjan Jowanow Gruew called Dame Gruew (or Gruev or Grueff, Bulgarian Дамян Йованов Груев , or Даме Груев; * January 19, 1871 in Smilewo , Vilâyet Manastır ; † December 23, 1906 in Rusinovo , Vilâyetar Saloniki was a revolutionary) as a leading figure of the BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee / Български Македоно-Одрински революционни комитети , a predecessor organization of the IMRO ).

Gruew studied in Belgrade and Sofia from 1889 to 1891 . In Sofia he came into contact with the Macedonian national movement. Gruev was imprisoned for his involvement in the murder of the Bulgarian finance minister, Christo Beltschew . After his release, he went back to Ottoman- ruled Macedonia . In 1899 he took up a position as a teacher in Thessaloniki .

On October 23, 1893 he was next to Christo Tatartschew , Petar Poparsow , Christo Batandschiew , Anton Dimitrov and Ivan Chadschinikolow , founders of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee in Thessaloniki, which stood at the beginning of the Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee (BMARK for short).

In 1900 Gruew was arrested by the Ottoman authorities and imprisoned in Asia Minor. Back in Macedonia, he took part in the Ilinden uprising , although skeptical about the prospects of success . After its bloody suppression, he organized a guerrilla war by the BMARK against the Ottomans. He was killed in a skirmish with Ottoman soldiers in late 1906.

The Gruev Cove , a bay of Greenwich Iceland in Antarctica is named after him since of 2006.

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^ ^A ^b Wojciech Roszkowski , Jan Kofman (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, Abingdon 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-1027-0 , p. 320.

personal data
SURNAME	Gruew, Damjan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gruew, Damjan Jowanow; Gruew, lady; Груев, Дамян Йованов (Bulgarian); Груев, Даме (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Macedonian-Bulgarian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Smilewo , today Macedonia
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1906
Place of death	Rusinovo , now Macedonia

[Dictionary-1] A ^b Wojciech Roszkowski , Jan Kofman (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, Abingdon 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-1027-0 , p. 320.