Dame Gruev

Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev,The first names are transliterated either as Damjan Jovanov, after the Bulgarian Дамян Йованов Груев and Macedonian Дамјан Јованов Груев. The last name is also sometimes rendered as Grueff. (January 19, 1871, Smilevo, present-day Republic of Macedonia - December 10, 1906 near Petlec peak in Maleshevo, present-day Republic of Macedonia) was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace. He was among the founders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees. ..."It appears to have originally been called the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Committee (BMORK — the'O'standing for Odrin or Adrianopole). In 1902 it changed its name to the Secret Macedonian Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organisation"... Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 53.Д. О. Лабаури. Болгарское национальное движение в Македонии и Фракии в 1894 - 1908 гг.: Идеология, программа, практика политической...
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