He was from the Aromanian village of Anilio but at an early age moved to Constantinople and worked as an animal merchant.

In 1820, Alexandros Ypsilantis commissioned him to either free or murder Aristeidis Papas, who had been sent to Serbia to encourage the Serbs to rise up against the Ottomans and held secret documents of the Filiki Etairia.

After the outbreak of the revolution in the Danubian Principalities in 1821, he attacked, along with Diamantis Serdaris and Ioannis Solomontas against Jovan Rogobeci, killing him.

Together with Giorgakis Olympios, they saved the remaining Sacred Band revolutionaries after the Battle of Drăgășani.

Although he was jailed for violating Austrian neutrality, he managed to escape and flee to the Peloponnese in 1825.