 Near the town archaeologists have found Roman and Serbian medieval relics, but it is believed that mass immigration occurred before the Serbian Revolution at the beginning of the nineteenth century with people from Montenegro, East Bosnia and the Western Serbian mountains Zlatibor and Tara.This part of Serbia was under the rule of the Nemanjić dynasty until the Ottoman Empire seized control of the country in 1463.During the next two centuries roads were built and major development began linking the Adriatic Sea to western Serbia and to the east.