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Diocletian’s Palace in Spalatum (now Split, Croatia) was a former residence built by Emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3rd and 4th century CE as a villain which he intended to settle down after his intended stay in 305 CE abdication. The building was designed on the model of castrum romanum (a fortified Roman camp ), on a rectangle ...
In 305 CE, the emperor Diocletian, who had been shared the empire with Maximian, retired to a fortified palace he had built (in 293) in what was by now known as Spalatum. Model of Diocletian's palace Dimensions of the palace: more than 170 meters wide, more than 200 meters long; walls of 15 meters high; enclosing some 38,000 square meters
It was built in 305 A.D. within the imperial palace, near the city of Salona, the ancient center of Illyricum. It was erected as a central peripter of an octagonal layout, the cylindrical interior of which is covered by a dome.
- Manuela Studer-Karlen
Spalatum is the traditional name for the location of DIOCLETIAN’s palace, which was transformed into a city in the early Byzantine time and still constitutes the urban core of Split on the coast of central DALMATIA in Croatia. Excavations and restorations of the palace have been carried out since 1947. The name Spalatum probably derives from
Peristyle of Diocletian’s Palace. Split (Roman Spalatum) is city on the Dalmatian coast on a promontory in Kaštelanski Bay, southeast of Salona (modern Solin, Croatia). The etymology suggested by Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos from palatium (palace) is now considered incorrect—possibly, the Greek name was derived from a plant used in the ...
Ground plan of Diocletian’s Palace. Here we see that Diocletian built the palace in a rectangular shape. Walls on the east and the west side were approximately 215 meters long. Walls on the north and the south side were about 180 meters wide. Size of the palace was 30000 square meters (8 acres).
Apart from this, the existence of a town called Spalatum is attested by a number of Early Christian churches in the palace, built as early as the 6th century. The settlement, surely, predated the transition of populace from the town of Salona that, probably, happened during the 7th century.
