Cetatea Pătulului is a Roman-Byzantine fortification, identified by some with the Roman Flaviana.
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 .