“In the old days, there was a kingdom in Tsouka. A very proud king reigned there. He started from his palace on horseback and came to worship at the Red Church in Paleochori. As soon as he reached the door of the church, he did not get off his horse to enter the service but entered on horseback through the door of the women, because this door was much bigger at that time. Later, when this king was expelled and the Ottomans came, then the Christians, in order for the Ottomans not to enter the church on horseback and to make it dirty, narrowed the door a lot and now in order for someone to enter, one has to bend down. I forgot to tell you that this king is said to have been not a Christian.”
According to Spyridon Lambros, this is obviously either from the Orsini family that ruled from 1318 until 1359, or from the Serbian or Albanian rulers, or from the Tocco family that followed until 1449, when Arta fell to the Ottomans (Λάμπρος, 1905).
In order to stop the rude cavalry of the Ottomans in the temple, the inhabitants of the area reduced the western entrance of the temple, a view matched with the obvious traces of the reduction of the western door of the temple, but without the coincidence of the existence of the temple (Independent state Epirus) and the kingdom in Tsouka (location three kilometers south of Voulgareli, where the remains of an ancient wall are found, while tombs have been found on the slopes of the hill.