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Marjan
Split harbor, the Riva, and Marjan in the background.
Highest point
Elevation	178 m (584 ft)
Coordinates	43°30′30″N 16°24′30″E
Geography
Marjan Location in Croatia
Location	Marjan Park-Forest, Dalmatia, Croatia
Parent range	Dinaric Alps

Buildings

Religious

Christian

Extant

Picture	Name (in Croatian)	Year of completion	Notes	Coordinates	Sources
	Madonna of Bethlehem Church Gospa od Betlema	c. 1500		43°30′32″N 16°24′16″E	str. 325
	Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Chruch Crkva Gospe od Sedam Žalosti	sometime before 1362		43°30′27″N 16°24′09″E
	St. Nicholas Church Crkva Svetog Nikole	1219	Built by a resident of Split named Roko and his wife Elizabeta who donated it to the	43°30′26″N 16°25′37″E
[[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.	43°30′30″N 16°23′20″E
	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

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