Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cewar Procopius ("De Aedificiis", 4.3.5), Justinian I (r. 527<unk>565), amma wasu shaidu sun nuna yiwuwar cewa "tsohuwar rayuwar birni na iya riga ya ƙare a farkon ƙarni na 6" (T.E. Gregory). Hierocles ya ambaci Demetrias a cikin karni na shida. Yankin sa ya kasance ne daga kabilar Slavic ta Belegezitai a cikin ƙarni na 7/8th, Saracens sun mamaye shi kuma sun sace shi a cikin 901/2, kuma 'yan tawaye a lokacin Tashin hankali na Peter Delyan
a shekara ta 1040.