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Split is the second-largest city of Croatia. Home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in AD 305, the city was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Later it drifted into the sphere of the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Croatia, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and French Empire. After being occupied in 1813, where the city remained a part of the Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia.
