Salona definition of Salona in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Salona (səlō`nə), Latin Salonae, ancient city of Dalmatia Dalmatia (dălmā`shə), Croatian Dalmacija,
..... Click the link for more information. , 3 mi (5 km) NE of modern Split, Croatia. A port on the Adriatic, it was used as a base for Roman conquest and was made a Roman colony and the capital of Illyricum in the 1st cent. B.C. The busy commercial city gained prestige when Diocletian Diocletian (Caius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) (dī`əklē`shən), 245–313, Roman emperor (284–305), b.
..... Click the link for more information. , after retiring in A.D. 305, built a magnificent palace nearby. Salona became an episcopal see in the 4th cent., but in the 7th cent. the people fled before invaders to Diocletian's palace, which they transformed into the city of Spalato (now Split Split (splēt), Ital. Spalato, city (1991 pop. 189,388), S Croatia, on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea.
..... Click the link for more information. , Croatia). Salona was destroyed. Salona is also called Solin.