 The modern settlement was established in the Middle Ages as Vitrinitsa (from Slavic Větrьnica, "windy place") and is first mentioned as one of the places plundered by the Normans in 1147.Following the Fourth Crusade (1204), it became part of the Frankish Lordship of Salona.A small castle was built on a hill on the western edge of the plain, attested in literary sources in the 14th century but possibly built earlier.