 In 364 AD, Imperial Villa Mediana was the site where emperors Valentinian and Valens met and divided the Roman Empire and ruled as co-emperors

The residence was abandoned after the city of Naissus was devastated by Attila's hordes in 442.The residence was erected on flat terrain, on an area which covers over 400,000 square metres, on a high bank, some distance from the river, at the foot of the hills which frame the Nišava Valley, near a thermal water source.There was a street in the east-west direction which passed on the south side of the villa with peristyle and the granary located 150 metres from it.