Biography
Tsaous was born in 1893 in Kastamonu, Pontus on Turkey's Black Sea coast. As a citizen of the Ottoman Empire he completed his military service in the Ottoman army, attaining the rank of sergeant. After the Asia Minor catastrophe, he came to Greece as a refugee and settled in Piraeus. He worked initially as a tailor for some years, before opening an ouzeri. He and his wife died in 1942 of food poisoning during the famine caused by the Italo-German occupation. Much of the information on his life comes from descendants of his sister-in-law.
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