The earliest mention of the city is in the Novgorod
Chronicle (dated between 1387 and 1392). Five years later, the name appeared on
a donation deed. The city is mentioned in a Moldavian document, signed by
Moldavia's Voivode Roman I, on March 30. The document is one of the first of
documents of the then-young state of Moldavia, being the first which holds a
fully legible version of the Moldavia seal, bearing the aurochs, the moon, the
star, and the flower, still in use on Coat of Arms of Moldova.
Roman became a diocesan see in September
14, 1408,
