Diocletian's Palace near Salona ( today's downtown of the city of Split, Croatia | Split in Croatia )

He moved into the expansive Diocletian's Palace, a heavily fortified compound located by the small town of Spalatum on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, and near the large provincial administrative center of Salona.

Modern view of Diocletian's Palace near Salona ( in Split ( city ) | Split, Croatia )

The city itself grew around the heavily fortified Diocletian's Palace the Emperor had built in anticipation of his retirement.

* Diocletian's Palace

Diocletian's Palace ( Split, Croatia | Split )

* Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia, is built.

* Diocletian's Palace is built at a small bay on the Dalmatian coast, four miles from Salona, today's Split, Croatia.

On his return journey, Adam and Clerisseau spent time intensively studying the ruins of Diocletian's Palace at Spalato in Dalmatia ( now known as Split, in modern Croatia ).

Burlington may also have been influenced in his choice of octagon from the drawings of the Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ), or from Roman buildings of antiquity ( for example, Lord Burlington owned Andrea Palladio's drawings of the octagonal mausoleum at Diocletian's Palace at Split in modern Croatia ).

In a way, it is the continental obverse of Diocletian's Palace in Split, by its monumentality.

The Romans utilised octagonal towers as elements of Diocletian's Palace in Croatia, which monument dates to approximately 300 AD, while the Servian Walls ( 4th century BC ) and the Aurelian Walls ( 3rd century AD ) featured square ones.

The economy of Brač is based mostly on tourism, but fishing and agriculture ( especially wine and olives ) are very important too, as is its precious white stone which was used in building Diocletian's Palace in Split and the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

* C. Michael Hogan, " Diocletian's Palace ", The Megalithic Portal, Andy Burnham ed., Oct. 6, 2007

A number of springs and rivers rise in the Dinaric range, including Jadro Spring noted for having been the source of water for Diocletian's Palace at Split.

He eventually found it in the ruins of Diocletian's Palace.

Dalmatia was the birthplace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, who constructed Diocletian's Palace in the core of what is now present day Split.

Near the city emperor Diocletian, born in Salona, built the Diocletian's Palace ( around year 300 AD ), which is the largest and most important monument of late antique architecture in the World.

When the Roman Emperor Diocletian retired, he erected a monumental palace nearby ; this massive structure, known as Diocletian's Palace, became the core of the modern city of Split.

Refugees from Salona settled inside the remains of Diocletian's Palace.

Basement of Diocletian's Palace

Salona was an early Roman settlement, which became overshadowed when Emperor Diocletian constructed the nearby Diocletian's Palace in about the year 300 AD.

Surviving local residents of Salona, after the Avars retreated from those regions, to a settlement " Spalatum ", today's ( Split ), at the location of Diocletian's Palace ( probably around the middle 7th century AD ).

The authorities also constructed the city weather station and two " vidilice ", or " look-out points ", as resting places connected with a long stairway all the way to the Diocletian's Palace, the " Riva " promenade and the rest of the city center.

Diocletian's reforms created a strong governmental bureaucracy, reformed taxation, and strengthened the army, which bought the empire time but did not completely resolve the problems it was facing: excessive taxation, a declining birthrate, and pressures on its frontiers amongst others.

Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 ( over of the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedia in the East ) to build the city soon called Nova Roma ( New Rome ); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.

Since Diocletian's Tetrarchy ( 296 ), it was the major province of a diocese confusingly called Galliae (' the Gaul s '), to which further only the Helvetic, Belgian ( both also Celtic ) and German provinces belonged ; with the dioceses of Viennensis ( the southern provinces of Gaul ), Britanniae ( also Celtic ) and Hispaniae ( the whole Celtiberian peninsula ) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor.

While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305. Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the alleged liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.

After Diocletian's administrative reforms, it was split into Africa Zeugitana ( which retained the name Africa Proconsularis, as it was governed by a proconsul ) in the north and Africa Byzacena in the south, both of which were part of the Dioecesis Africae.

These coins held their value during Diocletian's reign, but aside from the bronze and copper coins, which were mass produced, they were minted only very rarely and had little effect on the economy.

They placed them in what was once Diocletian's mausoleum, which was subsequently converted into a cathedral.

While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.

The coastal city of Split is also the second largest city in Croatia, and is well known for its unique Roman heritage which includes UNESCO-protected Diocletian's Palace.

Rather, they now characterize it as a much more subtle, gradual transformation, in which Diocletian's reforms of the Imperial office, while significant, are but one point on a sliding scale.

The Acta of the martyrdom of the bishop Fructuosus and his deacons Augurius and Eulogius document his legend ; they are the earliest Hispanic Acta, " marked by a realistic simplicity which contrasts very favourably with many of the Acta of Diocletian's persecution ".

Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, around which the Croatian city of Split ( city ) | Split emerged. Diocletian's Palace viewed from the south. The basement of Diocletian's Palace. Peristyle and the Cathedral of St. Domnius-a tourist attractionThe ground plan of the palace is an irregular rectangle ( approximately 160 meters x 190 meters ) with towers projecting from the western, northern, and eastern facades.

It also gave access to Diocletian's mausoleum on the east ( now Cathedral of St. Domnius ), and to three temples on the west ( two of which are now lost, the third having become a baptistery, originally being the temple of Jupiter ).

* Both the notion of " partnership " in the form of a senior emperor and several junior co-emperors ( usually, but not necessarily, his sons ), and Diocletian's titulature, but mainly versed in Greek ( e. g. Sebastos for Augustus, a literal translation ), became quite common is the Eastern Roman Empire, i. e. Byzantium, which lasted a further millennium after the fall of the Western Empire.

Emperor Constantine completed Diocletian's reforms and organized the Roman Empire into four pretorian prefectures late in his reign, actually the former territorial circumscriptions of the former four imperial tetrarchs to which each praetorian prefect had acted as chief of staff: the Prefecture of the Gauls, the Prefecture of Italy and Africa, the Prefecture of Illyricum, and the Prefecture of Oriens, with each administrated by an imperially appointed Praetorian prefect.

Following Diocletian's abdication in 305, civil war erupted among the various co-emperors, during which time each of the contenders appointed his own prefect, a pattern carried on during the period where the Empire was shared between Licinius and Constantine I.

Alexandria, whose defense was organized under Diocletian's former corrector Aurelius Achilleus, held out until a later date, probably March 298.

When later authors described the period, this is what they emphasized: Ammianus has Constantius II admonish Julian for disobedience by appealing to the example in submission set by Diocletian's lesser colleagues ; Julian himself would compare the Diocletianic tetrarchs to a chorus surrounding a leader, speaking in unison under his command.

He served with distinction as a soldier under Emperors Aurelian and Probus, and in 293 at the establishment of the Tetrarchy, was designated Caesar along with Constantius Chlorus, receiving in marriage Diocletian's daughter Valeria ( later known as Galeria Valeria ), and at the same time being entrusted with the care of the Illyrian provinces.

The term was first used to refer to the bodyguard of a general during the Republic ; later, a unit of Imperial guards ( temporarily restyled cohors palatina, " Imperial Cohort ", circa 300 AD, under Diocletian's tetrarchy ).

John the Lydian, over two centuries later, reported that Diocletian's army at one point totalled 389, 704 men, plus 45, 562 in the fleets, and numbers may have increased later.

Only ten years later, Christianity was made legal in Egypt by Diocletian's successor Constantine I.