Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A cikin kimanin 930, lardin ya mamaye kuma 'yan Bulgarian sun mamaye shi na ɗan lokaci. 'Yan Bulgarian sun dawo karkashin Tsar Samuel wanda ya matsar da cibiyar ikon Bulgarian kudu da yamma zuwa Ohrid, kuma a cikin ca. 980 ya kama yawancin yankin, har zuwa Gulf Ambracian. An tabbatar da wannan daga gaskiyar cewa yankunan da ke ƙarƙashin mulkin Bulgarian sun kasance wani ɓangare na Archbishopric na Ohrid bayan da aka yi watsi da mulkin mallaka.
Yaƙin Byzantine na Bulgaria ta Emperor Basil II a cikin 1018: don haka ya ga Chimara, Hadrianopolis, Bela, Buthrotum, Ioannina, Kozyle, da Rogoi sun shiga ƙarƙashin ikon Ohrid, yayin da Metropolitan na Naupaktos ya riƙe kawai ya ga Vonditsa, Aetos, da Acheloos. Basil II ya kuma kafa wasu ƙananan jigogi, waɗanda suka ƙunshi kaɗan fiye da kagara da kewayenta, waɗanda ke Koloneia da Dryinoupolis, a cikin abin da ke yankin iyakar Girka da Albania a yau. A cikin 1040, bayan kisan gilla da cin hanci da rashawa da jami'in haraji na zalunci <unk> a cewar John Skylitzes, mazauna yankin sun shahara da kasancewa a shirye don yin tawaye saboda dalilai na kasafin kuɗi <unk> yawancin batun sun shiga cikin tayar da hankalin Petar Delyan.