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Area. 20.8 ha (51 acres) Split ( / ˈsplɪt /; [4] [5] Croatian pronunciation: [splît] ⓘ ), historically known as Spalato (from Venetian: Spàlato, 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
The Archdiocese of Split-Makarska ( Latin: Archidioecesis Spalatensis-Macarscensis; Croatian: Splitsko-makarska nadbiskupija; ) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic church in Croatia and Montenegro. [1] [2] The diocese was established in the 3rd century AD and was made an archdiocese and metropolitan see in the 10th century.
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Split (uttal: [splît], italienska: Spalato, [ 2][ 3] se även andra namn) är en stad och stadskommun i Kroatien. Stadskommunen hade 178 192 invånare 2011 varav 167 121 i centralorten. [ 1] Split är belägen på Splithalvön vid Adriatiska havet i mellersta Dalmatien.
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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.
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:
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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