Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sarkin Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent da kansa ya shirya wani kamfen a 1537 wanda ya lalata ko ya kama ƙauyuka da yawa da ke kewaye amma bai sami nasarar mamaye yankin ba. Ottomans sun ga ya zama dole su sasanta tare da mazauna ta hanyar ba su jerin gata: karamar mulkin kai, 'yancin ɗaukar makamai, keɓewa daga haraji,' yancin tafiya a ƙarƙashin tutarsu zuwa kowane tashar jiragen ruwa na Ottoman da kuma ba da sabis na soja a lokacin yaƙi. Duk da haka, duk da gata, Himariotes sun yi tawaye a lokacin rikice-rikice masu zuwa: Ottoman-Venetian War (1537<unk>40), Ottoman-Venetian War (1570<unk>73), Morean War
(1684<unk>99), Ottoman <unk> Venetian War (1714<unk>18) da yaƙe-yaƙe na Rasha da Turkiyya na ƙarni na 18. A gefe guda kuma, Ottoman ya yi watsi da yankin kuma ya haifar da tilasta Islama wanda a ƙarshe ya iyakance yawan Kiristocin yankin zuwa karni na 18 zuwa garin Himarë da ƙauyuka shida. Bugu da ƙari, yawancin mutanen Lab, ƙabilar Albanian da ke kusa, sukan kai hari ga Himariotes saboda launin fata da addini. A wani lokaci, a shekara ta 1577, hakiman Himarë sun yi kira ga Paparoma don makamai da kayayyaki da suka yi alkawarin za su yaƙi Ottoman. Sun kuma yi alkawari za su canja addininsu zuwa Roma, idan za su riƙe al'adunsu na Orthodox na Gabas "tun da yake yawancin jama'ar Helenawa ne kuma ba su fahimci harshen Frank ba". A cikin wasiƙu daban-daban ga sarakunan Turai, Himariotes sun yi iƙirarin cewa shugabannin da suka taɓa yin mulki kamar Alexander the Great, Pyrrhus na Epirus da Skanderbeg ne suka mallake su, mutanen da Himariotes suka kafa ƙwaƙwalwar tarihi. Mutumin da aka fi ambatonsa wanda Himarotes ke alfahari da kansu a cikin abubuwan da suka gabata shine Skanderbeg.