Roman castrum named Civitas Tropaensium was settled here and in 109 AD.
See:
- Efthymios Rizos, Centres of the late roman military supply network in the Balkans: a survey of horrea, In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum: Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz, Heidelberg 2013, pp. 659-696