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Visit to Split October 25th 2012
Marina and Harbour
Visit to Split October 25th 2012
Ferry Port
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Coastline Approach
Split, Croatia
Ciovo island
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Church and Convent of St. Francis
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Church and Convent of St. Francis
Visit to Split October 25th 2012
Church and Convent of St. Francis
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Riva
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Diocletian's Palace Walls
Diocletian's Palace - Basement
Diocletian's Palace Cellar
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Diocletian's Palace Cellar
Visit to Split October 25th 2012
Roman Walls
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Poljana kraljice Jelene
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Peristil
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Selling Tours
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Vomitorium Walls
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Saint Dominus Bell Tower
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Saint Dominus Bell Tower
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Singers
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Vestibule Dome
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Vestibule
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Vestibule
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Roman Walls
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Roman Walls
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Lunch
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Narrow Streets
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Narodni trg
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Stara gradska vijecnica
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Narodni trg
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Trg Brace Radic
google map for Croatia, Split

Croatia, Split

About Split

The city was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos in the 3rd or 2nd century BC on the coast of the Illyrian Dalmatae, and later on was home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in AD 305. It became a prominent settlement around 650 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 Roman refugees. Split became a Byzantine city. Later it drifted into the sphere of the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Croatia, with the Byzantines retaining nominal suzerainty. For much of the High and Late Middle Ages, Split enjoyed autonomy as a free city of the Dalmatian city-states, caught in the middle of a struggle between Venice and Croatia for control over the Dalmatian cities.

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