Description

Split is a city with the oldest cathedral in the world Saint Domnius Cathedral (Saint Dujam) and one of the oldest preserved building in the world Diocletian's Palace. One of the most unusual stories in world history and one of the most beautiful cities in the world, since 1979 under the protection of UNESCO.
Little is known about the history of the Roman emperor Diocletian because various mysteries took place at that time and most of the historical documents were destroyed. Throughout his life, Diocletian was celebrated as a reformer who, after 50 years of war, brought stability to the Roman Empire. And throughout history he was remembered as the greatest persecutor of Christians, even though he was from a large Christian family. After the death of Diocletian, every trace and statue of him was destroyed and his name was not allowed to be mentioned, it was erased from a large part of the historical records. Even today it is not known how he died, nor his exact year of death, he died 313-316 years.
The only Roman emperor to abdicate, abdicate from Salona and retire to Split. All other Roman emperors were either killed or died in that position.
Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian was born in 245 in Salona, from a large Christian family. He was the uncle of St. Caius who was pope of 284, a cousin of Bishop Gabi, and of St. Susanna whom he had killed because she did not want to marry his son. He becomes emperor after Emperor Numerian died under unexplained circumstances.

Diocletian was an anti-Christian and through his reign he had the whole family and all the most important people connected with the church and Christianity killed because he was a bad economist and he felt everything around him as a threat. The coin had a higher value in production than in circulation.
He had his first wife Serena, who was his wife before he became emperor, killed when he learned that she was a Christian and with her he had a daughter who legend has said had disappeared. Previously, he wanted a Greek princess for his wife, who rejected him, so he had her killed.
During her reign, Priska's legal second wife was a Christian and had a son and a daughter with her, which is still talked about today. He killed his son, chased his wife Prisca, who was wandering in various provinces and was found and killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, and cursed and chased another daughter because she did not want to marry one prince or anyone else, and when he wanted to kill , the daughter has disappeared and the legend says that she is not dead yet and that once in 100g she appears in a golden carriage around the salt pans and split and is looking for a woman who loved her. Even today, every summer, plays about Diocletian's daughter Valeria are shown.
Diocletian was also accused of killing St. Domnius, later the protector of the city of Split, who was sent as a personal envoy of the Apostle St. Peter in the 1st century to baptize the population of Dalmatia.

Also interesting are the basements of Diocletian's Palace which were made for the army and 1 basement 6 km long leads from Diocletian's Palace in Salon. One part of the basement is still unexplored today.
The history of Split is much older than the reign of Diocletian, in the 3rd and 4th century BC a settlement called Aspalatos was built where the Greek colonies inhabited the areas inhabited by the first Illyrian tribes, and in the 1st century it became a Roman province time the center of the world.
In the 7th century the Avars and Slavs demolished the old Salona (today Solin), the inhabitants fled to the nearby islands and after some time returned from the island to Diocletian's Palace and turned Diocletian's mausoleum into a cathedral, destroyed Diocletian's sarcophagus in which the emperor rested and from demolished the basilica of Salona transferred to the cathedral the bones of the first bishop of Salona of the Holy Duma, after which the cathedral is still named today.

From then until today, the Cathedral of the Holy Duma lives and it reflects weddings and Masses, and every year on May 5, a procession of the Holy Duma is held in Split.
From the 14th to the 17th century, Split was ruled by the Venetian Republic, and in the 18th century, after the fall of the Venetian Republic, Split came under the rule of Austria and the Habsburg Monarchy, in the 19th century it was part of Yugoslavia. Since 1991 Split is part of Republic of Croatia.
The city still has life in Diklecijan's palace and people still live there as they did 1700 years ago. All important parts of Diocletian's palace have been preserved, so all the features of the old split are an integral part of our lives.
Split has recently been discovered as a tourist destination and with its history, coast, natural beauty and geographical position and the islands around Split becomes one of the most desirable tourist destinations in the world recognized by the organizers of ultra music festival and since 2010 in Split is held ultra music festival and certainly the next few years.