Podgorica is written in Cyrillic as '''Подгорица''', ; , ; ''Podgorica'' literally means "area below Gorica". ''Gorica'' (), meaning "little hill", is the name of one of the cypress-covered hillocks that overlooks the city center. Some three kilometres () north-west of Podgorica lie the ruins of the Roman-era town of Doclea, from which the Roman Emperor Diocletian hailed. In later centuries, Romans "corrected" the name to , guessing wrongly that an ''i'' had been lost in vulgar speech.  is the later South Slavic version of same word. At its foundation (some time before the 11th century), the town was called . In the Middle Ages, it was known as '''Ribnica''' (, ). The name Podgorica was used from 1326. From 1946 to 1992, the city was named '''Titograd''' () in honour of Josip Broz Tito, the President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980.