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The site of Split was first settled when, at the end of the third century AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian built his palace there. Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (243-316) is the Latinized name of an ordinary soldier with a Greek name - Diokles. Diocletian succeeded to rule for two decades and lived to see a long retirement after abdicating, which amounts almost to a miracle. He abdicated on May 1, 305 and retired to the palace he had prepared in Split for his retirement.
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Eastern Europe
