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Split is the largest and most important city in Dalmatia, the administrative center of Croatia’s Split-Dalmatia County, and the country’s second-largest city. It is a Mediterranean city, situated on a small peninsula on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea. Although the beginnings of Split are usually linked to the building of Diocletian’s Palace, the city was founded as a Greek colony much earlier.
The Marjan hill (178m), rises in the western part of the peninsula. The ridges Kozjak (779m) and Mosor (1339m) protect the city from the north and northeast, and separate it from the hinterland.
Split has a Mediterranean climate: hot, dry summers and warm, wet winters. Split is one of the sunniest places in Europe. Vegetation is of the evergreen Mediterranean type, and subtropical flora grow in the city and its surroundings. The Marjan hill is covered with a large cultivated forest. Since 1979, the historic center of Split has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Split is also known as one of the centers of Croatian culture. Split is the economic and administrative center of Middle Dalmatia, with about 200,000 inhabitants.
Split is a busy port, with an international airport and regular ferry services with the nearby islands, the north and south Adriatic, Italy and Greece.