In the ares of 150-200 hectares there stood a military camp in the 1st century after Christ. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries it served as a residency for region committees (concilium provinciae) of Pannonia Inferior province. From the end of the 3rd century a new town was built in the place of the ruined settlement. Its name was Herculia, which probably was the county townl of Valeria province.