Dame Gruev

Dame Gruev
Born(1871-01-17)January 17, 1871
Smilevo, Ottoman Empire
DiedDecember 23, 1906(1906-12-23) (aged 35)
Petlec Peak, near Rusinovo, Ottoman Empire
NationalityOttoman/Bulgarian
OrganizationInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

Damyan Yovanov Gruev (Bulgarian: Дамян Йованов Груев, Macedonian: Дамјан Јованов Груев[a] January 19, 1871 – December 23, 1906) was а Bulgarian teacher,[3][4] revolutionary and insurgent leader in the Ottoman regions of Macedonia and Thrace.[5] He was one of the six founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

  1. ^ Спомени на Дамянъ Груевъ, Борисъ Сарафовъ и Иванъ Гарвановъ, съобщава Л. Милетичъ, Издава "Македонскиятъ наученъ институтъ" 1927 г. София, стр. 7.
  2. ^ Građa za istoriju makedonskog naroda iz Arhiva Srbije: knj. 2. 1886-1887. pp. 220 и 579.
  3. ^ "In Macedonia, the education race produced the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which organized and carried out the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. Most of IMRO's founders and principal organizers were graduates of the Bulgarian Exarchate schools in Macedonia, who had become teachers and inspectors in the same system that had educated them. Frustrated with the pace of change, they organized and networked to develop their movement throughout the Bulgarian school system that employed them. The Exarchate schools were an ideal forum in which to propagate their cause, and the leading members were able to circulate to different posts, to spread the word, and to build up supplies and stores for the anticipated uprising. As it became more powerful, IMRO was able to impress upon the Exarchate its wishes for teacher and inspector appointments in Macedonia." For more see: Julian Brooks, The Education Race for Macedonia, 1878—1903 in The Journal of Modern Hellenism, Vol 31 (2015) pp. 23-58.
  4. ^ Roumen Dontchev Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov, Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies, BRILL, 2013, ISBN 9789004250765, p. 300.
  5. ^ "The last of the significant leaders of the Uprising - Dame Gruev, died one 23 December 1906 in a fight with Turkish soldiers. The Turkish Press described him as the biggest leader of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee. French, Austrian, Russian, American and British consuls and ambassadors reported to their governments the preparation and the crushing of the Ilinden Uprising and described it as a Bulgarian event. The Turks themselves described the uprising as a Bulgarian conspiracy." Chris Kostov, Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996, Volume 7 of Nationalisms across the globe, Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 3034301960, pp. 87-88.


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