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Diocletian's Palace: Then and Now

Retirement palace of Emperor Diocletian, built around AD 305; its walls now enclose the old town of Split.

As it was
Diocletian's Palace, as it was
Model of the palace as built, seen from the northeast. Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The ruins today
Diocletian's Palace, the ruins today
Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayCroatia
StatusRuins
DateAD 305
Nearest city on the mapNaples (about 345 km)
Location43.508° N, 16.440° E
Map showing Diocletian's Palace in AD 300Diocletian's Palace
Border map for AD 300. See Europe in AD 300.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–401 BCIllyrians
400 BC–324 BCHallstatt culture
323 BC–2 BCUnclaimed / no data
1 BC–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Galerius)
400–499Western Roman Empire
500–599Ostrogoths
600–799Eastern Roman Empire
800–899Byzantine Empire
900–999Croatian kingdom
1000–1299Croatia
1300–1399Hungary
1400–1491Kingdom of Hungary
1492–1599Venice
1600–1699Ottoman Empire
1700–1879Austrian Empire
1880–1913Austria Hungary
1914–1919Austro-Hungarian Empire
1920–1993Yugoslavia
1994–todayCroatia

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