Diocletian, who once ruled territory that now includes Croatia, tried and failed to rein in inflation by dictating prices.

In the fourth century AD, when the Roman emperor Diocletian retired, he built a vast residence for his golden years here in his native Dalmatia. When Rome fell, the palace was abandoned.

In the fourth century AD, when the Roman emperor Diocletian retired, he built a vast residence for his golden years here in his native Dalmatia. When Rome fell, the palace was abandoned.

That city was my home once, I tell him. It is the most beautiful city in the world. The Emperor Diocletian made it his capital. 'Is it true what they say?' the boy asks me. 'Are the houses made of ...

Some 1,700 years on, the Emperor Diocletian would still recognise his palace – or the shell of it, at least. This vast, rectangular complex fell into disuse in the sixth century, 300 years after ...

The “Crisis of the Third Century,” a fifty-year period which saw some two dozen men hold the imperium and some score more make bids for it, came to an end with the accession of Diocletian (r., 284-305 ...

And instead of being a knight, he was a Roman soldier, at the time of Emperor Diocletian in the 4th century. And this was when the real story began. Diocletian believed in the Roman gods and ...