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The city of Split was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος) in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. It became a prominent settlement around 650 CE when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, Salona. After the Sack of Salona by the Avars and Slavs, the fortified Palace of Diocletian was settled by the ...
Aug 18, 2020 · 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
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.
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 ...
Died at Spalatum, 3 December AD 311. Diocletian’s Early Life. Born probably near Spalatum (Split) with the name Diocles on 22 December AD 240 or 245, he was the son of a poor family in Dalmatia. It is said that his father, apparently a scribe of a wealthy senator, might have been a former slave.
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 ...
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