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The Peristyle of Diocletian's Palace, collotype (1909).. The history of Split as a significant city, in its own right, begins with the Sack of Salona by the Avars in 639 CE. . Conflicting versions of the event are in existence, and it is unknown whether the city was taken by treachery, by ruse, or whether the defense was simply abandoned by the terrified popul
Split (/ s p l ɪ t /, [4] [5] Croatian: ⓘ), historically known as Spalato [6] (Italian: [ˈspaːlato]; Venetian: Spàlato; 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.
1924 – Museum of Natural History founded. [27] 1925 – Zagreb-Split railway constructed. [8] 1929 – Split becomes seat of the Littoral Banovina administrative region of Yugoslavia. [28] 1931 – Gallery of Fine Arts founded. [29] 1941 – Split annexed by Italy, becomes part of the Governorate of Dalmatia and capital of the province of ...
The Golden Gate (Croatian: Zlatna vrata, Latin: Porta Aurea), or "the Northern Gate", is one of the four principal Roman gates into the stari grad (old town) of Split. Built as the main gate of Diocletian's Palace, it was elaborately decorated to mark its status. Over the course of the Middle Ages, the gate was sealed off and lost its columns ...
After 395 the Roman Empire split in two. In the East, Greeks were the predominant national group and their language was the lingua franca of the region. Christianity was the official religion of this new Empire, spread through the region by the Greek language, the language in which the first gospels were written.
The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in comprehensive, narrative historiography, while earlier ancient history or protohistory is known from much more fragmentary documents such as annals, king lists, and pragmatic epigraphy.
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Greek East and Latin West are terms used to distinguish between the two parts of the Greco-Roman world and of medieval Christendom, specifically the eastern regions where Greek was the lingua franca (Greece, Anatolia, the southern Balkans, the Levant, and Egypt) and the western parts where Latin filled this role (Italy, Gaul, Hispania, North Africa, the northern Balkans, territories in Central ...