It crosses to Romania at the Vatin border crossing, continuing further north towards Timişoara.

Bronze Age graves of south Russian steppe nomads was found in the village, as well as 14th century BC duck-shaped vases were found in Vatin.

Cf. C. Vatin, Recherches sur le mariage et la condition de la femme mariee a Vepoque hellenistique (Paris, 1970).

On the territory of Ottaviano, during the first Servile War, in 73 BC, Spartacus defeated the two praetor, Gaius and Publius Clodius Vatin sent from Senate.

Podunavlje region in Serbia was area where several important prehistoric cultures flourished, notably the Lepenski Vir culture, the Starčevo culture, the Vinča culture, the Kostolac culture, the Vatin culture, the Belegiš culture, etc.

During the Eneolithic period, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, several Indo-European archaeological cultures were centered in or around Vojvodina: the Vučedol culture, the Vinkovci culture, the Vatin culture, the Belegiš culture, the Bosut culture, etc.