Gruev, Damjan (Dame) (v. Smilevo, Bitola, 19. ⅰ 1871 – Top Petel, near the village. Rusinovo, Maleshevo, 23. ⅻ 1906) – National Dian and revolutionary. He was educated in the native village of Smilevo, Resen and Bitola, Thessaloniki and Belgrade (gymnasium) and in Sofia (studied history of the High School). In the Thessaloniki Exarchical Gimnesia, “St. Cyril and Methodius “(1887/1888) participated in the great rebellion of students to stop the Bulgarization, for teaching Macedonian folk speech, and in the Gymnasium in Belgrade in the rebellion against the trade regime of Macedonian students. The University of Sofia established a Macedonian National Revolutionary Core of the Student Group, in which Petar Pop Arsov was entered, Peter Toshev, Ivan Hadzi-Nikolov, etc., which acted under the name of young Macedonian book (MMD) and issued the magazine “Vine” for Affirmation of the Macedonian national uniqueness and defense of Macedonian national interests. Gruev devoted himself to oral agitation. He was arrested and held in prison (1891). Disconnected from the university. After the liberation, he returned to Macedonia. In Bitola, he established a revolutionary society of young teachers. From Bitola left for a teacher in Smilevo, then in Prilep. He returned to Thessaloniki, where he worked as the main corrector in the printing house of the Black Samardziev. With Petar Pop Arsov and Ivan Hadzi-Nikolov formed a Macedonian revolutionary group in which they entered: Andon Dimitrov, Hristo Batanziev (both teachers) and Dr. Hristo Tatarchev (doctor) and set the foundations of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. At the constitutive meeting (7. 1894), Gruev became the first secretary of the Central Committee. From Thessaloniki went to Stip as a head teacher in a three-liter school. Here the first time he met Goce Delcev (teacher in the Novo Selo Shtip). After returning to Thessaloniki, I was a school inspector. After talks in Sofia with the leadership of the Supreme Committee of the Macedonian Emigration Organization in Bulgaria and Constantinople, it was convicted that the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization could not only count on support, but also that $ fiercely confrontation. The Ottoman authorities expelled him to Bitola (1898), where he was arrested (August 1900) regarding the poopaberal affair and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The prison in Bitola maintained links, gave instructions and managed the local organization. He was transferred from Bitola (May 1902) in the prison in Basale-Kale (Asia Minor), where he was together with Hristo Tatarchev and Hristo Matov. In the prison he remained 10 months (until March 1903). After the amnestriction, he returned to Macedonia (in Smilevo), and then went to Thessaloniki, where he had several days of meeting with Goce Delchev, who arrived to agree on recalling the January decision of the TMORO for lifting an unprepared uprising. Gruev did not deviate before the strength of the arguments and before the insistence of Delcev, resolved himself to take fatal responsibility. The conversation Gruev ended him with the words: “Enough, a better terrible end, than horror without end!” And he traveled to Bitola, on his way to Smilevo. In early May all over the Congress of the Bitola Revolutionary District. The main establishments headquarters were selected: Damjan Gruev, Anastas Lozananchev and Boris Sarafov. The Ilinden Uprising was raised on August 2. Gruev experienced the moment of the historical act, but the horrors of the suffering of his people resolved at all costs to fight and fight for freedom and for his own state. After months of exhausting struggles with a huge, modern-armed enemy army, the main instance headquarters made a decision to stop the uprising in order to spare the people and preserve the forces and cadres of the movement. After the uprising Mr. He remained in Bitola with the people to work on consolidating the organization. He participated in the movable Prilep Congress (May 1904), advocated to pro-do to function the organization, centralized as a secret state in the Ottoman state, as the “underground republic”. It was chaired by the General Congress of the Revolutionary Organization (1905) and was elected member of the Central Committee. He engaged to overcome the divisions. The unity achieved at the Congress lasted briefly. Gruev decided to return to the terrain in Macedonia. He died in the struggle of the top five in the village. Rusinovo killed Damjan Gruev (1906) (Maleshevo). The population from Rusinovo buried him in the courtyard of the village church. Later his bodily remaining were transferred to the village. Smilevo. The death is also in the Maleshevian folk song “Three Petil and the trimmy of the dukes”. Lit.: Dame Gruev (1971-1906). Research and materials, Bitola, 1971; Memories of I.H. Nikolov, D. Gruev, B. Sarafov, J. Sandanski, M. Gerdjkov, Dr. H. Tatarchev. Professional newsroom Dr. Ivan Qatadzieva, Skopje, 1995; Dimitar Dimeski, the Macedonian national liberation movement in the Bitola Vilayet (1893-1903), Skopje, 1981; Manol Pandevski, Ilinden Uprising, Skopje, 1978; Vanco Georgiev, Freedom or Death. Macedonian revolutionary national liberation movement in Thessaloniki Vilaet 1893-1903, Skopje, 2003. M. Min.
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