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Prisca (died 315) was a Roman empress as the wife of the emperor Diocletian. According to the Latin writer Lactantius, Prisca and her daughter Valeria were "forced to be polluted" by sacrificing to the Roman gods during the Great Persecution of 303. [2] Lactantius is, perhaps, implying that Prisca and Valeria were Christian or favorably ...
The Beulé Gate is a fortified gate leading to the Propylaia of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.It was constructed largely of repurposed material taken from the 4th-century BCE Choragic Monument of Nikias and integrated into the Post-Herulian Wall, a late Roman fortification built around the Acropolis in the years following the city's sack by the Germanic Heruli people in 267 or early 268 CE.
city and settlement in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. Split (Q1663) Q1663)
Spalatum (modern Split, Croatia) is an ancient settlement on the Adriatic coast most noted for the palatial residence of the emperor Diocletian. Display location accuracy buffer (s) Show place in Google Earth . Show area in GeoNames , Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap. Canonical URI for this page:
britannica .com. The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for 'British Encyclopædia') is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 ...
Anastasius the Fuller. Saint Anastasius the Fuller (died 304) is a Christian saint of the pre- schism Christian Church. Anastasius was a fuller of Aquileia who subsequently moved his business to Salona, although other sources say he went to Spalatum . He was martyred by being drowned after he had proclaimed his Christian faith openly by ...
Restoration of Diocletian’s mausoleum in Split. Radoslav Buzancic. Diocletian’s mausoleum is one of the best preserved buildings from the fourth century, which only went through some minor modifications from the time that it was built. It was built in 305 A.D. within the imperial palace, near the city of Salona, the ancient center of Illyricum.
