Liologlou claimed to have been born in 1805[a] in
Isaakio of
Evros. He participated in the uprising of the inhabitants of the
Didymoteicho region during the
Greek Revolution of 1821, which ended as a failure in
Thrace after the defeat of the revolutionary forces in the Battle of Saltikio (now
Lavara).[2] Following the complete destruction of his home town, Isaakio, by the
Ottoman forces under Hadjiestrev Agha, he and his grandfather were reduced to work as the Agha's serfs, after the possessions of Greek inhabitants of the village were confiscated.[2] He later was a priest in Didymoteicho.[3]
He died in 1920 at the claimed age of 115,[2][4][a] just after
Western Thrace, including his home town, had become incorporated into
Greece.
Notes
^Other sources claim he was born in 1819 and that he died in 1932[1] but that is not possible as he took part in the Greek War of Independence, which began in 1821.
^https://labweb5.duth.gr/erg_laog/thrakika/Thrakika03parartima.pdf...ό πατήρ του σήμερον εν Διδυμοτείχω ζώντος είσέτι Γεωργίου Λιόλογλου ηλικίας 111 ετών... [...The priest of Didymoteicho is Georgios Liologlou who is aged 111...], ΘΡΑΚΙΚΑ, Παράρτημα Γ' Τόμου, Τμήμα Ιστορίας Εθνολογίας, Athens, 1931