[4] This pertinentia Imperatricis was awarded to Boniface of Montferrat's widow, Margaret of Hungary, by the Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders, an act confirmed by Pope Innocent III in 1210.

[5] In 1791, the Greek scholar Grigorios Konstantas, in his landmark Geographia Neoteriki, mentioned "Dessen" (Δεσσέν) as a Christian-inhabited village with 150 houses, located on the plain, south of Agia.

[5] The English traveller William Martin Leake, who visited the area in 1809, describes the mansion erected in the village by Veli Pasha, who preferred to reside there rather than his official seat at Larissa, where the climate was not to his liking.

[5] The area became part of Greece with the rest of Thessaly in 1881, leading to the departure of the Ottoman great landholders and their replacement by Greek ones.

Several Byzantine spolia are incorporated in the present structure, along with the synthronon of the old episcopal cathedral, which permitted the secure identification of Aetolofos as Vesaina.