Pavlos Kyrou
Pavlos Kyrou or Pavel Kirov was a Slavophone Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle. In Bulgaria he is regarded as a turncoat Bulgarian, renegade from the IMRO.Biography
Kyrou was born in 1860s in Zelovo of Florina. He was the grandson of the klepht Naoum Kyrou and spoke fluently both Bulgarian and Greek. He graduated from the local Greek school of his hometown and started his armed activities along with Kottas, fighting against the Bulgarian komitadjis and the Ottoman authorities. Kyros had the capability of knowing almost all of Western Macedonia and its paths and had many cooperators and friends from all over it. At the beginning of the 20th century he was a member of the pro-Bulgarian IMRO by the voivode Kottas, and after the Ilinden uprising of 1903, they both allied with the Greeks. In 1903-04 he travelled to Athens with Kottas to recruit volunteers for the struggle. Pavlos Melas wrote in a letter of his on 12 March 1904 about Kyrou:
He cooperated with many chieftains, like Dimitrios Dalipis, Kottas, Traianos Liantzakis, Ioannis Karavitis, Nikolaos Pyrzas, Pavlos Melas and especially Efthymios Kaoudis, who would not make a single move without the approval of Kyrou. He was killed in action along with Dalipis on 19 November 1906, during a battle against the armed groups of Mitre the Vlach and Pando Klyashev.
