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Salona (Ancient Greek: Σάλωνα, Latin: Salo) was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. [1] It was the last residence of the final western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos and acted as the de facto capital of the Western Roman Empire during the years 476-480.
Julius Nepos became the governor of Dalmatia even though he was a relative of the emperor of the East, Leo I the Thracian, and Dalmatia was under the western part of the Roman empire. Dalmatia remained an autonomous area. In 474, Leo I elevated Nepos as emperor of the western part of the empire in order to depose Glycerius, a usurper
Panorama of amphitheatre in Salona. Diocletian was born in Dalmatia, probably at or near the town of Salona (modern Solin, Croatia), to which he retired later in life.His original name was Diocles (in full, Gaius Valerius Diocles), [4] possibly derived from Dioclea, the name of both his mother and her supposed place of birth. [5]
Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 481 A.D. Dalmatia briefly fell under Gothic rulers who had also conquered Italy - Odoacer and Theodoric the Great. During the rule of the Ostrogoths , Dalmatia was united with the Pannonian area south of the Drava river into a single military-administrative unit, which was governed from Salona.
He fought there for two years, reduced a great part of Dalmatia and seized Salona (near today's Solin, near Split, Croatia), one of the major towns in Dalmatia. [15] [16] Later the Roman settlement of Colonia Martia Iulia Salona was founded, probably after the Roman civil wars.
Salona/Spalatum c (475–480) ... the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, ... magister militum in Dalmatia as Western Roman emperor.
Salona (10 - 639) Zadar (640 - 1918) Split (Largest city) Area. 2 ... The Provinces of the Roman Empire, that all Dalmatia was fully romanized by the 4th century AD.
Domnius became bishop of Salona around 284, [2] and was later beheaded 10 April 304 at the amphitheatre in Salona, [3] a large Roman city serving as capital of the Province of Dalmatia. Saint Domnius was martyred with seven other Christians in the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian , and was buried in the Manastirine cemetery, outside the ...