Port
Portus Salonitanus
Canale Castelli (Miller) · Kaštelanski zaljev
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Two very different harbours hide in the faint letters of Portus Calonitanus. Read one way, the name is found nowhere else and sounds Illyrian, perhaps echoing a local tribe, the Caloecini. Yet the first letter can just as well be a small s and the smudged u an n, which gives the harbour of Salona, the reading older copies already preferred. That fits well: the site is Kaštela Bay in Croatia, the naturally sheltered harbour of Salona, among the most important on the Illyrian coast, and a port of that standing would deserve a place on the map.