It is comparable to the nearby village of Kerasia, formerly called Arvanitokerasia (Greek: Αρβανιτοκερασιά), a combination of the words Arvanite and 'kerasia'.

[3] A town which dates from antiquity, Vlachokerasia was inhabited by the ancient Skiritai, a people dependent on Sparta and somewhat similar in class to the Perioikoi.

[7] Oeum (modern-day Vlachokerasia), being the primary town of the rugged and mountainous Sciritis district, was located on the road between Sparta and Tegea, and thus was strategically important to the Spartans.

Following the victory of Republic of Venice over the Ottomans in the Morean War in 1688, the peninsula fell into the hands of the Venetians who appointed an Italian governor-general to administer the new Regno di Morea (English: Realm of the Morea').

For example, population records such as the census of 1700, undertaken under the direction of governor-general Francesco Grimani, shed light on local demography: in Grimani's 1700 census the village of 'Vlaco Chierasia' was recorded with a population of 200 people in 48 families.