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Luka Gjerov — Macedonian revolutionary, participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement, member, head and leader of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (MRO).

Biography
Born on October the 27, 1870 in Bitola. He finished his primary education in his hometown, and then he also attended and completed the Thessaloniki Exarch High School. He began to engage in revolutionary activity in his town before the founding of the MRO. Dame Gruev is personally involved in the process of establishing the organization. In 1892, in Sofia, he contributed to the magazine Loza (1892-1894) and to  the newspaper  Macedonian Voice (Глас македонски 1893-1898). He entered Macedonia twice with a troop. In 1896 was appointed a teacher in Demirhisarsko Region and then in Kichevo (1897-1898). For his revolutionary activity, he served more than a year in Turkish prisons in Kichevo and Bitola. After being released from prison, he attended the Smilevo Congress and was elected as the head of the Kicevo revolutionary region.

During the revolutionary action in Kichevo, he commanded a detachment of 200 revolutionaries. After the uprising, he retreated to Bulgaria and there he joined the Macedonian revolutionary in Serez group.

He died in Sofia on September 20, 1948.