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Spalatum or Aspalathos (Greek: Ασπάλαθος ): port in Dalmatia, famous as residence of the retired emperor Diocletian, modern Split. History. Ruins of Spalatum today. s.III-II BCE: Aspalathos founded, probably as colony of Issa, which in turn was a Syracusan settlement from the fourth century BCE.
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Insigniicant Spalatum is replaced by Salona because of her greater renown, but also because Romans regarded the city one and the same as its ager; thus, territorium Salonae implied the area of Spalatum.54 Sidonius attests the functioning of Diocletian’s mausoleum to the end of the ith century, thus major alterations must have taken place in ...
Split, ancient Spalatum, Seaport (pop., 2001: 188,694), Dalmatia, Croatia. The Romans established the colony of Salonae nearby in 78 bc, and the emperor Diocletian lived at Split until his death in ad 313. After the Avars sacked the town in 615, the inhabitants built a new town within Diocletian’s 7-acre (3-hectare) palace compound; this ...
The Archbishopric of Spalathon or Spalatum (also Salona, Latin: Spalatum) was a Christian archbishopric with seat in Salona, Dalmatia (modern Split, Croatia) in the early Middle Ages. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire it recognised the supremacy of the Patriarch of Constantinople.
Spalatum (Italian: Spalato; Croatian: Split) – Initially created inside the Diocletian Palace. Crespa (Italian: Cherso; Croatian: Cres) – On an island in northern Dalmatia. Arba, (Italian: Arbe; Croatian: Rab) – On a small island in front of the northern Velebit mountains.
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 ...
