User:Saxum/Marjan
Marjan | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 178 m (584 ft) |
Coordinates | 43°30′30″N 16°24′30″E / 43.50833°N 16.40833°E |
Geography | |
Location in Croatia | |
Location | Marjan Park-Forest, Dalmatia, Croatia |
Parent range | Dinaric Alps |
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[edit]History
[edit]Urbanization
[edit]Buildings
[edit]Religious
[edit]Christian
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[edit]Picture | Name (in Croatian) |
Year of completion | Notes | Coordinates | Sources |
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Madonna of Bethlehem Church Gospa od Betlema |
c. 1500
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[1] str. 325 | |||
Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Chruch Crkva Gospe od Sedam Žalosti |
sometime before 1362
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St. Nicholas Church Crkva Svetog Nikole |
1219
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Built by a resident of Split named Roko and his wife Elizabeta who donated it to the | |||
[[File:|200px]] | Our Lady of Good Counsel Church Crkva Gospe od Dobrog Svita (Savjeta) |
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St. George Church Crkva Svetog Jure |
9th century
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Built as a single-aisle church, with a barrel vault and a circular apsis. During the late middle ages, the barrel vault was demolished and replaced with an angled one, characteristic to the period. It was in a poor condition until 1975 when it was thoroughly renovated. | |||
St. Jerome Church Crkva Svetog Jerolima |
second half of the 15th century
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St. Stephen Church Crkva Svetog Stjepana |
1814
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Ad Dianam and the Old Jewish Cemetery
[edit]According to the 13th century map Tabula Peutingeriana, itself a copy of a map dated to the 4th or 5th century, a temple dedicated to the Roman godess Diana existed on the cape of Marjan, in the near vicinity of the Saint George's Church. Reffered to as Ad Diana on the map, what remains of the site is a portion of what appeared to be a structure seven meters long. Although it is generally accepted that the ruins near St. Georges Church are in fact what remains of Diana's temple, historian Miroslav Katić (1994) suggests these ruins might in fact be what is left of a roadside inn, situated on the road which led to the temple itself.
Since 1573, a site on the eastern slopes of the Marjan had been used as a burial ground for the Jewish population of Split. The Old Jewish Cemetery (Croatian: Staro židovsko groblje) was officialy