Военное училище эвэлпидов
He was born in the region of Sfakia in Crete (then still part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1853. He studied at the Hellenic Military Academy and was commissioned into the Army as an Ensign of the Artillery. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, he participated in the Greek expeditionary corps to his native Crete under Colonel Timoleon Vassos.