Split Harbor
Split harbor.
"Spalato, the ancient Aspalathos, Croatian Spljet, with 31,450 inhab . (mostly Croatians), the economic centre of the Dalmatian trade in wine, lies picturesquely encircled by lofty hills, in a fertile region, on a peninsula washed on the N. side by the Canale Castelli, and on the S. side by the Canale di Spalato. From 1420 to 1797 it belonged to Venice".--Baedeker 1911. EE1975253p1