Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon karni na 10, jigogi na Cephallenia da Nicopolis sun bayyana galibi a matsayin tushe don tafiye-tafiye a kudancin Italiya da Sicily, yayin da aka lissafa Mardaites daga duka jigogi a cikin babban ba tare da nasara ba na 949 a kan Emirate na Crete. A cikin shekara ta 1500, Bulgarian ya mamaye yankin Nicopolis, wanda har ma ya mamaye wasu sassan har sai da Byzantines suka kore shi ko suka mallake shi shekaru bayan haka. Arewacin arewacin Epirus ne kawai ya kasance a ƙarƙashin mulkin Bulgaria a lokacin, amma a ƙarƙashin Tsar Samuel, wanda ya koma tsakiyar ikon Bulgaria kudu da yamma zuwa Ohrid, mai yiwuwa duk Epirus har zuwa Tekun Ambracian ya kasance ƙarƙashin mulkin Bulgaria. An tabbatar da wannan daga gaskiyar cewa yankunan da ke ƙarƙashin mulkin Bulgarian sun kasance wani ɓangare na Archbishopric na Ohrid bayan da Byzantine ya ci Bulgaria
Emperor Basil II a cikin 1018: don haka a Epirus an ga Chimara, Hadrianopolis, Bela, Buthrotum, Ioannina, Kozyle, da Rogoi sun shiga ƙarƙashin ikon Ohrid, yayin da Metropolitan na Naupaktos ya riƙe kawai ya ga Bonditza, Aetos, da Acheloos. Basil II ya kuma kafa sabbin, ƙananan jigogi a yankin: Koloneia, da Dryinopolis (Hadrianopolis).