Trifon Grekov

Trifon Kostadinov Grekov (; 1893 – 1973) or Trifun Grekovski , also known as Trifun Greković , was a Macedonian physician, emigrant political activist during and after the First World War and Macedonian Partisan during the Second World War.

Biography Trifon, also known as Trpche Grkov , and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Others in the family were also members of the IMARO. He settled in Geneva, where from 1914 to 1920 he studied at the Faculty of Medicine. Together with other Macedonian students, he founded the Academic Society Macedonia. After graduating, he stayed in Switzerland, where he worked as a physician.

In Geneva, Grekov was a member of the International Bureau for the Defense of Indigenous Peoples and secretary of a commission of this bureau for Macedonia. In June 1921, he handed a petition to Helmer Rosting from the Secretariat of the League of Nations, who welcomed it as informing. He sent a congratulatory telegram to the founding congress of the Macedonian Federative Emigrant Organization, held in December 1921 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and joined this organization and wrote several articles in its organ Autonomous Macedonia. He was also part of a group of federalists who gathered in Vienna in late 1923 and early 1924 and formed a legal department of the organization. This group started publishing the newspaper Macedonian Consciousness, in which Grekov published his essay entitled A Brief History of Macedonia during 1924.

In the mid-1920s he returned to the region of Macedonia and settled in Gevgelija, then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), where he worked as a physician and was the only one in the city. He gave a speech on a demonstration organized by the authorities in Gevgelija, which protested against the policy of assimilation of the "Serbian minority" in Greece, i.e. the Macedonian Slavs as viewed by Belgrade. In 1936, the young doctor Dimitar Micev began his career in Gevgelija and helped Grekov in covering the entire population of the city, as well as the towns and villages in the vicinity, including Valandovo, Bogdanci, Dojran and Miravci. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, Grekov was mobilized as a military doctor in the Bulgarian Army in Bitola and Kumanovo.

In mid-August 1944, he deserted and moved to the Partisan-controlled village of Žegljane, located in a hilly area northeast of Kumanovo, where he established a shelter for wounded and sick partisans. Until the end of the war, he worked at the partisan hospital in the Prohor Pčinjski Monastery. In the first half of the 1920s, Grekov self-identified as a Macedonian Bulgarian, Contributing to the cause for Independent Macedonia, he wrote an article about the symbols of such a future state.