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ID: 7017320
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017320
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Solin (inhabited place)  Solin (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 016 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Dalmatian coast adjacent to Split; was important port and fortification of the Illyrian tribe, Delmatae; was under early Greek influence; was residence of Diocletian from 305 CE; taken by Goths and Huns several times; was decimated by Avars in 639.

Names:
Solin (preferred,C,V)
Salona (C,V)
Salonae (H,V)  ............ ancient
Colonia Martia Iulia Salonae (H,V)  ............ name of colony established here by Julius Caesar in 47 BCE
Romanorum (H,V)  ............ name of settlement established by traders & settlers from Italy in 1st century BCE

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Croatia (nation)  ........  Croatia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Splitsko-Dalmatinska Županija (county)  ............  Splitsko-Dalmatinska Županija (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Solin (inhabited place)  ................  Solin (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Illyria (general region)  ........  Illyria (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Solin (inhabited place)  ............  Solin (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an Illyrian settlement, first documented in 119 BCE
town (C)
port (C)
archaeological site (C)
administrative center (H)  ............  of the Roman province of Illyricum
colony (H)  ............  of the Roman Empire

Sources and Contributors:
Colonia Martia Iulia Salonae..........  [VP]
...............................................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 799
Romanorum..........  [VP]
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 799
Salona..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 799
Salonae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9878
Solin..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 79
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1058
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9878
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 799
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 79
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1058
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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