Solin

Today, it is the industrial suburb of Split, five kilometers from the town. It has three separate units. Between Donja Strana and the central part of Solin there are remains of the antique town of Salona, that was mentioned for the first time in 119 B.C. as the center of the Illyrian tribe Delmati.Later it was taken by Romans emperor Augustus it became the economic and political center of the Roman estates in Dalmatia. The biggest prosperity happened during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. Around 614 A.D. it was taken and destroyed by Slavs and Avars. In the Middle Ages it is a part of Croatian.
There are many remains from the Roman period like the ruins of the semicircular auditorium of the Roman amphitheater from the 2nd century, and the bases of the temple from the first century. The town square is in the north with a number of representative buildings and temples. There is a Roman cemetery beside the road, and beside the town walls is the remains of basilica from the 4th century. Following the partly preserved town walls you reach the complex of the town basilicas, the center of the Early Christian Solin from the 4th - 6th century, that includes the remains of the cathedral with three naves, the octagonal baptistery, bishop's palace and out-houses, and the remains of the basilica of the bishop Honorius with the ground plan in the shape of the Greek cross.
It the east there are ruins of the city baths, remains of the city district with dense street layout, Early Christian graveyard with the ruins of the large basilica with there naves.
The sarcophagi of Hipolitand-Fedra, Julija Aurelia, Hilae, and Good Shepherd were found in the vicinity and today they are kept in the Archaeological Museum in Split. The basilica of the open type, a rare example in the typology of the Early Christian graveyard in Solin. The remains of the sarcophagus of the queen Jelena from 976 were also found there, with the inscription that is one of the most important documents from the period of the early Croatian history.