Ohrid, North Macedonia
200 BCE
Trier, Germany
0-200 AD
Thessaloniki, Greece
2nd century AD
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
-31 BCE
Avenches, Switzerland
2th century AD
Sarandë, Albania
27 BCE - 14 AD
Trieste, Italy
100-0 BC
Como, Italy
0-100 AD
Salamanca, Spain
0-100 AD
Rome, Italy
115 BC
Carpentras, France
1st century AD
Rome, Italy
c. 220 AD
Newport, United Kingdom
90 AD
Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria
50 AD
Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy
3rd century BCE
Pula, Croatia
29-27 BC
Newport, United Kingdom
75 AD
Pula, Croatia
0-100 AD
Orange, France
1st century AD
Pompei, Italy
0-100 AD
The Church of St Donatus name refers to Donatus of Zadar, who began construction on this church in the 9th century and ended it on the northeastern part of the Roman forum. It is the largest Pre-Romanesque building in Croatia.
The beginning of the building of the church was placed to the second half of the 8th century, and it is supposed to have been completed in the 9th century. The Zadar bishop and diplomat Donat (8th and 9th centuries) is credited with the building of the church. He led the representations of the Dalmatian cities to Constantinople and Charles the Great, which is why this church bears slight resemblance to Charlemagne's court chapels, especially the one in Aachen, and also to the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. It belongs to the Pre-Romanesque architectural period.
The circular church, formerly domed, is 27 m high and is characterised by simplicity and technical primitivism.