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Coordinates: 43°30′36″N 16°26′24″E. Split ( / ˈsplɪt /; [4] [5] Croatian pronunciation: [splît] ⓘ ); Italian: Spalato: pronounced [ˈspalato] see other names ), is the second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast.
- History of Split
The city of Split was founded as the Greek colony of...
- Diocletian's Palace
Diocletian's Palace (Croatian: Dioklecijanova palača,...
- History of Split
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.
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Creative Commons Attribution License - Share Alike 3.0. 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 ...
Spalatum (modern Split, Croatia) is an ancient settlement on the Adriatic coast most noted for the palatial residence of the emperor Diocletian. Show place in Google Earth . Show area in GeoNames , Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap. DARMC location 14839 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters. {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places ...
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 ...
Spalatum is the traditional name for the location of Diocletian's palace, which was transformed into a city in the early Byzantine period and still constitutes the urban core of Split on the coast of...
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 ...
