In the Middle Ages, it was named Stimpoli(s) by reinterpretation as a single word ("in the city"), later simply Polis.

In the seventeenth century, it was also called facetiously Σαμαρόπολις, Γαϊδαρόπολις 'donkey city', or Γαϊδουρόπολις.

The emperor Augustus restored it and in consideration of the aid rendered him in his struggle with Marcus Antonius, he bestowed on the citizens their freedom, and with it the right of coinage.

Population of the modern town of Argyroupoli:[4] Lappa or Lampa was an episcopal see, suffragan of Gortyn.

[5] It was re-established by the Orthodox Church about the end of the nineteenth century; the bishop resides in the monastery of Preveli.