The site was an important point at the crossroads of trade routes: the river route, connecting the Oder River with the Danube, and the transcontinental route leading from Prague through the Moravian Gate, Krakow, Přemysl and on to Kyiv. It was the route of the Radanites-merchants, mainly Jewish, who in the early Middle Ages meditated trade between Western Europe and the Near and Far East, and between Christian and pagan countries and the Islamic world.
