Wednesday, 18th April 2007
After class on Wednesday, we went on a trip to Salona near Split. Our guide, a professor of history from the University of Split, gave us a short insight into the historian development. Together with him we climbed over stone walls in order to reach the most interesting pieces.
Salona served as a stronghold and a harbour of the Illyrian Delmati which quite early came under Hellenic influence. It was as a colony under Julius Ceasar, who was the then governor of Illyricum, and became soon the centre of the province of Illyricum and afterwards of the province of Dalmatia. It developed into a cosmopolitan centre of the Adriatic. The high point of its expansion was during the time of Diocletian. Between the IVth and Vlth centuries Salona became an important centre of Christianity. It was destroyed the by Avars and Slavs around the year 641.
The ancient ruins were excavated and are publicly accessible now. Most of the movable monuments from Salona are kept in the Archaeological Museum, in Split which was founded in 1821.(description follows that one available under http://w3.mrki.info/split/solin.html )
More detailed information is published under
http://www.mdc.hr/split-arheoloski/eng/FS-dislocirani.html
Meanwhile our international meeting has encountered interest and a journalist of a local paper devoted an article to us. (only available in Croatian)
htt
p://www.dugirat.com/content/view/4253/
After class on Wednesday, we went on a trip to Salona near Split. Our guide, a professor of history from the University of Split, gave us a short insight into the historian development. Together with him we climbed over stone walls in order to reach the most interesting pieces.
Salona served as a stronghold and a harbour of the Illyrian Delmati which quite early came under Hellenic influence. It was as a colony under Julius Ceasar, who was the then governor of Illyricum, and became soon the centre of the province of Illyricum and afterwards of the province of Dalmatia. It developed into a cosmopolitan centre of the Adriatic. The high point of its expansion was during the time of Diocletian. Between the IVth and Vlth centuries Salona became an important centre of Christianity. It was destroyed the by Avars and Slavs around the year 641.
The ancient ruins were excavated and are publicly accessible now. Most of the movable monuments from Salona are kept in the Archaeological Museum, in Split which was founded in 1821.(description follows that one available under http://w3.mrki.info/split/solin.html )
More detailed information is published under
http://www.mdc.hr/split-arheoloski/eng/FS-dislocirani.html
Meanwhile our international meeting has encountered interest and a journalist of a local paper devoted an article to us. (only available in Croatian)
htt
p://www.dugirat.com/content/view/4253/
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