Marjan
Split harbor, the Riva, and Marjan in the background.
Highest point
Elevation178 m (584 ft)
Coordinates43°30′30″N 16°24′30″E / 43.50833°N 16.40833°E / 43.50833; 16.40833
Geography
Marjan is located in Croatia
Marjan
Marjan
Location in Croatia
LocationMarjan Park-Forest, Dalmatia, Croatia
Parent rangeDinaric Alps


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Picture Name
(in Croatian)
Year of completion Notes Coordinates Sources
  Madonna of Bethlehem Church
Gospa od Betlema
c. 1500
[1] str. 325
  Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Chruch
Crkva Gospe od Sedam Žalosti
sometime before 1362
  St. Nicholas Church
Crkva Svetog Nikole
1219
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)
  St. George Church
Crkva Svetog Jure
9th century
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
  St. Stephen Church
Crkva Svetog Stjepana
1814

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.

 
Graves in the Old Jewish Cemetery.

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

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  1. ^ Crkve na Marjanu.