Salona
Salona was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and near to Split, in Croatia. It was one of the largest cities of the late Roman empire with 60,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Roman city on the Dalmatian coast, in present Croatia
- Also known as: “Dalmatia” and “Salon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jadro and Roman Theatre.
Jadro
River
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jadro is a watercourse in Dalmatia, Croatia, that discharges into the Adriatic Sea. The upper reaches of the Jadro River, as well as its source, Jadro Spring, are protected as an ichthyological nature reserve, partly due to the presence of an endemic species of soft-mouthed trout.
Roman Theatre
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roman Theatre is an archaeological site, which is situated 460 metres southwest of Salona.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Solin and Gospin otok.
Solin
Town
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Solin is a town and a suburb of Split, in Split-Dalmatia county, Croatia. It is situated right northeast of Split, on the Adriatic Sea and the river Jadro.
Salona
- Categories: ancient city, Roman city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Salona from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Salona” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Salona”
- Arabic: “سالونا”
- Asturian: “Salona”
- Azerbaijani: “Salona”
- Basque: “Salona”
- Belarusian: “Салона”
- Bosnian: “Salona”
- Bulgarian: “Салона”
- Catalan: “Salona”
- Chinese: “索罗那”
- Chinese: “索羅那”
- Chinese: “薩羅納”
- Croatian: “Salona”
- Czech: “Martia Iulia Valeria Salona Felix”
- Czech: “Salon”
- Czech: “Salona”
- Czech: “Solin”
- Danish: “Salona”
- Dutch: “Salona”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سالونا”
- French: “Salona”
- French: “Salone”
- Georgian: “სალონა”
- German: “Salona”
- Greek: “Σαλώνα”
- Greek: “Σάλωνα”
- Hebrew: “סלונה”
- Indonesian: “Salona”
- Irish: “Salona”
- Italian: “Salona”
- Japanese: “サロナ”
- Japanese: “サロナエ”
- Kazakh: “Салона”
- Kirghiz: “Салона”
- Latin: “Salona”
- Macedonian: “Салона”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salona”
- Norwegian: “Salona”
- Persian: “سالونا”
- Romanian: “Salona”
- Russian: “Салон”
- Russian: “Салона”
- Russian: “Салоны”
- Serbian: “Salona”
- Serbian: “Салона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Salona”
- Slovenian: “Salona”
- Spanish: “Salona”
- Swedish: “Salona”
- Turkish: “Salona”
- Ukrainian: “Салона”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Salona”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.