The first inhabitant of Split was the Emperor Diocletian, who in this friendly bay around 293 AD AD built a lavish imperial villa of about 30 thousand square meters, which withdrew after the departure from the throne of the Roman emperor. Following turbulent centuries of the villas have made a city in which they first entered the inhabitants of nearby Salona, fleeing before Avars and Slavs. Were then replaced in the town that grew outside the walls of the palace and its authorities from Croatian kings in 10th century AD, Hungarian and Venetian administration, to French rulers and Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Such past left its traces combined in the everyday life of a city that has always gone before - on remaining the center of this region to this day. It was in this mixture of historic layers brought some clumsiness and excessive speed, but it is now part of its originality. The big city today, the silent beats of history, lively spirit of youth and its particular Mediterranean charm, yet with all Croatian heat.
In medieval Latin documents and a large number of documents the city is called Spalato, and the Italian name is derived Spalato. Croatian city name was Split, and the 19th Spljet century, to pomtom was again changed to the current name of the city.
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