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SPALATRO

Volume 19 · 111 words · 1823 Edition

or SPALATTO, a rich, populous, and strong town, capital of Venetian Dalmatia, now belonging to Austria, with a good harbour and an archbishop's see. Here are the ruins of the palace of Diocletian, of which the late Mr Robert Adam published in 1764; a splendid account, enriched with 71 folio plates. In 1784, Spalatro was nearly depopulated by the plague. It is strong by situation, being built on a peninsula, which is joined to terra firma by a neck of land half a mile over. It is seated on the gulf of Venice, 35 miles south-east of Seniceno, and 102 northwest of Ragusa. E. Long. 17° 31'. N. Lat. 44° 4'.