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The island of Telendos was joined with Kalymnos until the middle of the 6th Century A.D.
 

The powerful earthquake of 554 A.D., which struck th entire East Byzantine Empire, also mortally affected Kalymnos, causing deaths, destructions of settlements, churches and subsidence. The region between Kalymnos and Telendos sunk in the sea.
 

Evidence o this destruction are the enormous cracks at the coast of Kalymnos, opposite Telendos, as well as the sunken buildings at the east coast of the island of Telendos and in the bottom of the marine channel, between Telendon and Kalymnos. At Pothia Beach, one half of a church is found on dry land while the other half is underwater.
 

Walking alongside the sea on the east coast of Telendos, it is still possible to see the remnants of the sunken buildings at the bottom of the sea.
 

During the 7th century, on account of the attacks and pillages of the Arabs, the residents of Telendos abandoned the coastal settlements of the island and moved further up the mountain, where they established the fortified settlement of Ayios Constantinos.
 

At the end of the 10th century, following the victory of the Byzantines against the Arabs, the coast of Telendos was inhabited once again. Later the island of Telendos was deserted completely and populated again during the period of the Ottoman Occupation. The chapel of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, next to the ruins of the previous EArly Christian church, in the vicinity of the modern cemetary is dated to the Post Byzantine Years.