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Salona , Latin Salonae, ancient city of Dalmatia , 3 mi (5 km) NE of modern Split, Croatia. A port on the Adriatic, it was used as a base for Roman conquest and was made a Roman colony and the capital of Illyricum in the 1st cent. BC The busy commercial city gained prestige when Diocletian , after retiring in AD 305, built a magnificent palace nearby. Salona became an episcopal see in the 4th cent., but in the 7th cent. the people fled before invaders to Diocletian's palace, which they transformed into the city of Spalato (now Split , Croatia). Salona was destroyed. Salona is also called Solin.

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Split, Croatia Aspalathos, Spalatum, Spalato Diocletian (245–313), Roman emperor (284–305), built a huge palace on the site of the 3rd century bc Illyrico‐Greek settlement of Aspalathos in which to live after his retirement. This name was Latinized to Spalatum after the arrival of the Romans. When Diocletian built his palace it was said that Spalatum was derived from the Latin palatium ‘palace’. In c.614 the inhabitants of nearby Salona sought shelter in the palace from marauding Avars. The palace was then developed into a city. It was held by the Venetians between 1420 and 1797, and called by them Spalato, and by Austria between 1797 and 1918 when it joined the newly created Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

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