In the late medieval era (14th century) the fort of Sagiada and its lucrative salt mines was contested among various local lords and the Angevins from Corfu.

The Venetian Republic saw this as a threat to its trade network and demanded its destruction with the excuse that the area once belonged to Venice.

[4] Sagiada is recorded in the 1431 Ottoman Arvanid defter, as part of the nahiye/vilayet of Vagenetia in the Sanjak of Albania as one of the villages whose tax rights were given to timar holders.

[7] In 1473 the illustrious man (egregius vir) Johannes Volassi (or Vlassi) temporarily captured Sagiada and various surrounding Ottoman controlled regions after approval from Venice.

[12] Athanasios Psalidas (1767–1829), counselor of Ali Pasha of Ioannina noted that the town was inhabited by an ethnic Greek community.

[14] During the late Ottoman period (1820-1913) Sagiada was among the Greek speaking areas on the coastal part of Chameria.

[21] The survivors of the 1943 destruction were forced to move to the adjacent coast, where the new settlement was built after the end of World War II.