Stridon

{{Short description|Town in Dalmatia, Rome}} [[File:Roman Empire about 395.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|The Stridon bishopric seat in the Roman province Dalmatia (in today's Bosnia) on a map of the Roman Empire about 395 AD, from ''Historical Atlas'' (1911) by William R. Shepherd]] [[File:Josip Bedeković - Natale solum magni ecclesiae dostoris sancti Hieronymi (1752).jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|In this 1752 book titled ''Natale solum magni ecclesiae doctoris sancti Hieronymi in ruderibus Stridonis occultatum'' ("Birthplace of Saint Jerome."), Croatian Pauline Josip Bedeković Komorski of the Sveta Jelena monastery refers to Štrigova in Međimurje County as the birthplace of Saint Jerome.]]

'''Stridon''' ({{langx|la|Strido Dalmatiae}}) was a town in the Roman province of Dalmatia, of unknown location, best known as the birthplace of Saint Jerome. In 379, the town was destroyed by the Goths. Jerome wrote about it in his work ''De viris illustribus'':<ref>Jerome, ''De viris illustribus'', ch. 135.</ref> "Jerome was born to his father Eusebius, [in the] town of Strido, which the Goths overthrew, and was once at the border between Dalmatia and Pannonia." ("''Hieronymus patre Eusebio natus, oppido Stridonis, quod a Gothis eversum, Dalmatiae quondam Pannoniaeque confinium fuit...''").

==Location== The exact location of Stridon is unknown. It is possible Stridon was located either in modern Croatia or Slovenia. Possible locations are the vicinity of Ljubljana,<ref name=guide>{{cite web |year= 2010 |url= http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226257&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226257&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500783&baseIndex=25&bmLocale=en |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110615182333/http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226257&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226257&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500783&baseIndex=25&bmLocale=en |url-status= dead|archive-date= 15 June 2011 |title= Decorative Arts: Renaissance - Saint Jerome and the Lion |publisher= Louvre.fr |access-date=1 February 2010}}</ref> Starod (Slovenia), Sdrin, Štrigova, Zrenj, Zrin (Croatia) and many others in both countries.<ref>{{cite web|title=Neizčrpen vir|trans-title=An inexhaustible resource|url= http://www.druzina.si/ICD/spletnastran.nsf/all/2AAF9A6C851CDBC0C125736900348B23?OpenDocument |website=www.druzina.si}}</ref><ref name=Florschütz>{{cite journal| journal= Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu| issn= 0350-7165| volume= 6| issue= 1|date=October 1902| author= Josip Florschütz| title= Stridon i Zrin|trans-title= Stridon and Zrin| language= Croatian| pages= 87–98| format= PDF| url= http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=76255| accessdate= 30 September 2011}}</ref><ref name=Mayer>{{cite journal| journal= Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu| issn= 0350-7165| volume= 22-23| issue= 1|date=January 1942| author= Antun Mayer| title= Stridon|trans-title= Stridon| language= Croatian| pages= 175–185| format= PDF| url= http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=76850| accessdate= 30 September 2011}}</ref> However, according to other sources, such as Frane Bulić in his work ''Stridon (Grahovopolje u Bosni) rodno mjesto Svetoga Jeronima: rasprava povjesno-geografska'' (1920) and the geographical map of the Roman Empire in 395 AD from ''Historical Atlas'' (1911) by William R. Shepherd, Stridon, which was the seat of a bishopric, is placed at 44.2N, 17.7E, in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, in {{ill|Grahovsko Polje|bs}}, near the town of Grahovo.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bulić|first=Frane|author-link=Frane Bulić|date=1920|title=Stridon (Grahovopolje u Bosni) rodno mjesto Svetoga Jeronima: rasprava povjesno-geografska|trans-title=Stridon (Grahovopolje in Bosnia) the birthplace of St. Jerome: a historical-geographical discussion|url=https://archive.org/details/stridongrahovopo00buli|access-date=30 October 2013|work=Journal of Dalmatian Archeology and History, v. 43|publisher=Zemaljska štamparija - Sarajevo|language=Bosnian, Croatian}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Atlas|section-url=https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/shepherd-c-042-043.jpg|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1911.html|section=The Roman Empire about 395|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|access-date=4 March 2019|first=William R.|last= Shepherd|author-link=William R. Shepherd|pages=42–43|year=1911}}</ref>

== Notable people== Other than Saint Jerome, the priest Lupicinus of Stridon came from Stridon. Domnus of Pannonia, a bishop who took part in the First Council of Nicaea, is often said to have come from or been bishop of Stridon or, more likely, the bishop of Sirmium.

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Roman towns and cities in Croatia Category:Jerome Category:Former populated places in Croatia Category:Roman towns and cities in Slovenia Category:History of Dalmatia