Southeast of the village there is a settlement of prehistoric and early historical times with visible surface relics.

[3] On the road to the village Akropotamos, ruins of a triple Early Christian Basilica have been found.

[4] The settlement is recorded as village and as "Podogoryani" in the Ottoman Tahrir Defter number 167 dating to 1530 and written within the kaza of Drama.

[5] According to the statistics of the Bulgarian geographer Vasil Kanchov, the village had a total population of 650 residents in 1900, consisting of 450 Greek Christians and 200 Turks.

[8] A fire started near the village on 8 August 2015 in rough terrain with low vegetation, which because of the strong wind expanded quickly, threatening houses of the settlement.