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  SPALATO - LoveToKnow Article on SPALATO
Spalato is situated on the seaward side of a peninsula between the Gulf of Brazza and the Gulf of Salona.
Spalato has a striking sea-front, fn which the leading feature is the ruined faade of the great palace of Diocletian, to which the city owes its origin.
In 1105 Spalato became a vassal state of Hungary; in 1327 it revolted to Venice; in 1357 it returned to its allegiance.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPALATO.htm   (998 words)

  
 DALMATIA - LoveToKnow Article on DALMATIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
North-west of Sinj rise the Svilaja and Mosec Planinas; the ridges of Mosor and Biokovo, with Sveto Juraj (5781 ft), follow the windings of the coast from Spalato to Macarsca; Orjen marks the meeting-place of the Herzegovinian, Montenegrin and Dalmatian frontiers, and the Sutorman range appears in the extreme south.
Chief Towns,---The chief towns are Zara, the capital, with 32,506i inhabitants in 1900, Spalato (27,198), Sebenico (24,751), Trail (17,064), Ragusa (13,174), Macarsca (11,016), and Cattaro (5418).
The Church was involved in the general confusion; for the synod of Spalato, in 1059, had forbidden the use of any but Greek or Latin liturgies, and so had accentuated the differences between Latin and Slav.
92.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DALMATIA.htm   (6075 words)

  
 Italians and Dalmatia - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
While Slavs were reaching the sea along the Channel of Morlacca north of Zara, and the Littoral south of Spalato, the Roman towns were giving rise to the municipia, with similar characteristics to those in the Italian Peninsula, enlivened by the continuity of the trade with the other shore of the Adriatic.
On Oct. 9th, Maria Pasquinelli, a teacher in Spalato, was allowed by the German Garrison’s HQ to exhume and identify the bodies of the condemned by the partisan Military Court.
Spalato One might suppose that in Rapallo, the diplomats from Palazzo Chigi (Italy's Foreign Ministry), together with the renunciation of the Dalmatian territories, wanted to safeguard the Italian minority, in order for them to stay under the sovereignty of the S.H.S. State.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=115945   (11553 words)

  
 Spalato
The Palatine hill became the Palatium of the Caesars, and Palatium was the name which was borne by the house of Caesar by the Dalmatian shore.
The great open court, the peristyle, with its arcades, have become the public plaza of the town; the mausoleum on one side of it and the temple on the other were preserved and put to Christian uses.
We say the mausoleum, for we fully accept the suggestion made by Professor Glavinich, the curator of the museum of Spalato, that the present duomo, traditionally called the Temple of Jupiter, was not a temple, but a mausoleum.
www.oldandsold.com /articles13/travel-151.shtml   (1753 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Dalmatia, 802-1204
The rival diocesis of Spalato, in communication with Rome, in 879 was elevated to an archdiocesis.
With Dalmatia split in a Venetian, a Hungarian and a nominally Byzantine sphere (Ragusa), the rivalry between Zara and Spalato intensified; in 1154 the diocesis of Zara was elevated into an archdiocesis, thus freeing it from the influence of Spalato.
In 1164, Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus conquered Trau and Spalato from Hungary.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/dalmatia8021204.html   (712 words)

  
 USS Zrinyi
As SMS Zrinyi, she served in the Austro-Hungarian[?] Navy (K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) during World War I, and was turned over as a prize of war to representatives of the United States Navy at Spalato, Dalmatia[?], on the afternoon of November 22, 1919.
Zrinyi remained at anchor at Spalato for nearly a year while the negotiations that would determine her ultimate fate dragged on.
Only once in fact, did she apparently turn her engines over; and that occurred during a severe gale that struck Spalato on February 9, 1920.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Zrinyi.html   (241 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Literature - Travel
He occupied the Archiepiscopal throne of Spalato for fourteen years, during which period his time was divided between the performance of his ecclesiastical duties, and the investigations of science.
Spalato, in common with the rest of Dalmatia, has given birth to many able men, among which they claim even St.
The majority of the inhabitants of Spalato are Roman Catholics, with an admixture of Greeks and a good number of Jews, who wear the turban and the Oriental costume, and are principally descended from those who were expelled from Spain in 1493.
www.istrianet.org /istria/literature/travel/rhr/rambles07.htm   (1507 words)

  
 A Roman Palace in ex-Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The city of Spalato, which means "little palace", was founded by the emperor Diocletian; he made it his own dwelling-place, and built within it a court and a palace, most part of which has been destroyed.
Split - or Spalato - is one of the most extraordinary places of the later Roman world, being no less than the palace which the Emperor Diocletian began building in 293 AD in readiness for his retirement from politics in 305.
On the Dalmatian coast, adjacent to the Roman city of Salonae, it takes the dual form of a legionary camp similar to those still to be seen on the frontiers of Syria (appropriately so, for Diocletian was of necessity a military emperor) but also, with its splendid loggias, of an Italian house.
archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /SDG/Experimental/split/split1.html   (1093 words)

  
 Italy - Spalato And Diocletian
It accentuates the Oriental idea of the separation of the sexes in its double parallel apartments, and in this as well as in its style illustrates the Eastward tendency of the emperors of the third century which was soon to culminate in the founding of Constantinople.
The natural surroundings are superb, with Mount Mossor as a background and the rocky foothills reaching almost to the shore to frame the enormous bulk of Diocletian's palace, with its southern façade crowning the water's edge.
The design is almost identical with that of the Spalato water-front, and was perhaps the work of the same architects.
www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/roman-cities-32.shtml   (3201 words)

  
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The P. Prelate might have thanked Spalato for this argument, but he doth not so much as cite him, for fear his theft be apprehended; but Spalato hath it set down with stronger nerves than the Prelate's head was able to copy out of him.
The P. Prelate might thank Spalato for this argument also,[4] for it is stolen; but he never once named him, lest his theft should be apprehended.
But in popular government many are chosen out of the people to rule; and that this is the worst government is said gratis, without warrant; and if monarchy be the best of itself, yet, when men are in the state of sin, in some other respects it hath many inconveniences.
www.constitution.org /sr/q08.txt   (2135 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Dalmatia, 1347-1420
When the commiunities of Zara and Spalato objected, their cities were deprived of some of their outlying possessions, or found leading citizens arrested, in short experienced harrassment - the Hungarian pressure explained by the necessity to finance King Sigismund's crusade against the Ottoman Turks which ended in the disastrous defeat of Nicopolis 1396.
In 1402 a Neapolitan fleet (the Neapolitan Angevins claiming the crown of Hungary) was given a friendly reception in Zara; Trau and Sebenica were taken; Spalato, Ragusa remained loyal to Sigismund.
In Dec. 1402, Spalato was taken; Cattaro switched to the Neapolitans in 1403.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/dalmatia13471420.html   (848 words)

  
 Account of Conference between Spalato and Overall
Spalato came into England in 1616, being desirous to live under the protection of King James, having before been recommended by Padre Paolo.
By King James's bounty and care he was safely conveyed through Germany into England, and lodged in Lambeth Palace: Abbot thinking fit to retire to Croydon, till either Bishop Andrewes or Bishop Overall had conferred with him.
The king sent Bishop Overall to him, who took in his company his secretary, and commanded him to be near him the same morning Spalato arrived, to hear what passed between them.
anglicanhistory.org /lact/cosinv4/cosin20.html   (529 words)

  
 Florilegium
Thomas, archdeacon of Spalato (1200-1268), was a witness and principal reporter of that historic moment.
Four chapters of his Historia Pontificum Salonitanorum atque Spalatensium2 narrate the approach of the Mongols to Hungary, the conquest of the country, the flight of Bela IV to Dalmatia with the invading army in pursuit, the unexpected withdrawal of the Mongols, and the famine that followed their departure.
Beyond his devotion to Spalato and his preference for an Italian-style republican government, the so-called regimen latinorum, Thomas’s historical perspective was coloured by a sharpley critical attitude toward Slavs, Hungarians and Mongols.
www.uwo.ca /english/florilegium/volumes/vol2/sweeney.html   (9898 words)

  
 Entry of the Slavs into Christendom | Serbianna.com Features
By the accession of Heraklios (614) the situation of Salona and even some of the Dalmatian islands was already desperate; indeed Spalato owed its future importance to refugees from Salona, abandoned in the course of his reign.
The leading ecclesiastical centres on the coast were now Spalato (replacing Salona) and Dyrrachium(a) in the extreme south, the main point of communication with South Italy.
The Emperor Constantine was informed that the conversion of the Croats was attempted soon after their arrival in the seventh century: Heraklios had requested the Pope to organise missions, since the whole Dalmatian coast was still in the Papal diocese of Illyricum.
www.serbianna.com /features/entry_of_slavs/croatia1.shtml   (3779 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spalato-Macarsca
In 647 the city of Spalato began to arise from the ruin of Salona, and after an interregnum of eleven years its archbishops took over the territory of the archbishops of Salona.
Out of the long series of its seventy-nine archbishops may be mentioned St. Rayner (d.
The Church in Dalmatia was then reorganized, Macarsca united with Spalato, and the latter as a simple bishopric made subject to Zara.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14207a.htm   (462 words)

  
 Conditions in Dalmatia
I invite you to come to Spalato, and you will be able to convince yourself that we have no meat, no potatoes and no bread.
Near Spalato we have a waterfall, which apart from Scandinavia, is the highest in Europe--over 100 meters high, with 75,000 horsepower.
Spalato, my native town, is greatly embarrassed; for our contract with the Augsburg Gas Company runs out next year, and we don't know what to do.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~habsweb/sourcetexts/dalm1.htm   (2391 words)

  
 zrinyi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
However, the victorious Allies refused to acknowledge the conversations between the Austrians and Yugoslavians and, in due course, reallocated the ships.
Zrinyi had apparently been turned over to the Yugoslavs, as it was a Yugoslavian naval officer, Korvettenkapitan Marijan Polic who turned over the ship to representatives of the United States Navy at Spalato, Dalmatia, on the afternoon of 22 November 1919.
On the morning of 7 November 1920, Zrinyi was decommissioned, Chattanooga (C-16) took her in tow and, assisted by Brooks (DD-232) and Hovey (DD208), pulled the battleship to Papaja, Italy.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/zrinyi.htm   (343 words)

  
 Spalato Diocletian's Palace the Peristyle Dalmatia AustroHungary Famous Landmarks
Spalato Diocletian's Palace the Peristyle Dalmatia AustroHungary Famous Landmarks
Spalato, Diocletian's Palace, the Peristyle, Dalmatia, Austro-Hungary -- 1890
Our historical products include reproduction civil war maps, postcards and photochroms, baseball cards, magic posters, circus posters, science fiction posters, classic art, and more.
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 HD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Louis Cukela was born in Spalato, Serbia, on 1 May 1888.
He was educated in the grade schools of Spalato, then attended the Merchant Academy and later, the Royal Gymnasium, both for two year courses.
In 1913, he emigrated to the United States and he and his brother settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Cukela_L.htm   (603 words)

  
 Palace of Diocletian --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
295 and 305 at Split (Spalato), Croatia, by the emperor Diocletian as his place of retirement (he renounced the imperial crown in 305 and then lived at Split until his death in 316).
ancient Roman palace built between AD 295 and 305 at Split (Spalato), Croatia, by the emperor Diocletian as his place of retirement (he renounced the imperial crown in 305 and then lived at Split until his death in 316).
Topics include the Vatican, Soviet Russia, the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Dead Sea Scrolls, paleontology, and the Palace of Diocletian at Split (Spalato), Croatia.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030522?tocId=9030522   (819 words)

  
 DD-211 DANFS
Following shakedown training and post-shakedown repairs and alterations, ALDEN, subsequently reclassified to DD-211 during the fleetwide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers on 17 July 1920, sailed on 5 December 1919 for duty in European waters, proceeding to Constantinople, and thence to Samsun, Turkey.
ALDEN visited Adriatic ports during the spring of 1920, investigating political conditions and "showing the flag" to protect American interests in the area, her ports of call including Spalato, Gravosa, and Pola.
Sailing thence, she again visited Spalato and Gravosa, in succession, before she proceeded to Salonika, Greece, where she arrived on 15 December 1920.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd211txt.htm   (4427 words)

  
 Search Results for Diocletian - Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
ancient Roman palace built between AD 295 and 305 at Split (Spalato), Croatia, by the emperor Diocletian as his place of retirement (he renounced the imperial crown in 305 and then lived at Split...
Diocletian may be considered the real founder of the late empire, though the form of government he established—the tetrarchy, or four persons sharing power simultaneously—was transitory.
Collection of links on the sociopolitical, cultural, and economic life in the Roman Empire between the rule of Emperor Diocletian and the advent of Prophet Muhammad.
www.britannica.com /search?query=Diocletian&submit=Find&source=MWTAB   (447 words)

  
 History of Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Their kinsmen, the Serbs, settled in Montenegro, Northern Albania, Old Servia, and the western part of the Servian Kingdom.
The cities of Zara (Zadar or Jadera), Trau (Trogir or Tragurion), Spalato (Spljet), and Ragusa (Dubrovnik), on the Dalmatian coast, and the islands Veglia (Krk) and Arbe (Rab or Absorus), in the Adriatic, remained Latin in character.
Elsewhere, however, the assimilative power of the Croats was stronger and the Latin race disappeared.
www.historyofnations.net /europe/croatia.html   (1436 words)

  
 Compagnia Danza Francesca Selva
The dance company was founded by Francesca Selva in 1995, along with the Centro Danza in Siena.
That year it debuted successfully at the Spalato (Split) "Summerfestival", and the following year it participated with a re-edition of the Symphony Fantastique and Symphony Pathetique, under the artistic direction of the Spalato National Theatre.
The company became Artists in Residence at the Teatro dei Rinnovati and Teatro dei Rozzi in the City of Siena, which has recognised its professional and artistic merits.
www.francescaselva.com /comp_eng.htm   (386 words)

  
 Jugoslavia Postcards & Kansas Post Cards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
"140 Spalato from the Tower" showing a view of Split, Azo real photo (triangles both ways), caption from WOB, WP.
Spalato" with a good side view, Azo real photo (triangles both ways), caption from WOB, WP.
"Spalato Square 280" with a street scene from Split, Azo real photo (triangles both ways), caption from WOB, WP.
www.lotsofcards.com /JugoslaviaToKansas.htm   (4708 words)

  
 Solin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Known as Salonae in ancient Roman times, it was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and the birthplace of Emperor Diocletian, who built a fortified palace nearby, where he lived from 305 to 313.
Salona was sacked by the Avars in the 6th century, and its refugees moved to Diocletian's palace, turning it into the fortified town of Spalato (Split).
Christianity in Salona probably originated during the time of the apostles.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Solin.htm   (527 words)

  
 Summer_1459
TÜRKIYE: Spalato --> Zara, FAILS; the army has to retreat and it converts into a garrison.
The turkish army in Spalato has to retreat; hence it doesn't cut off the support, which was given by the dalmatian army in Zara.
Emperor Frederick has promised to burn at the stake, the persons responsible for the defamatory anti-imperial propaganda.
www.digicamera.net /game/Spring_1460_B.htm   (251 words)

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