{"id":48885,"date":"2021-04-04T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=48885"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:54:28","slug":"croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

C<\/strong><\/a>roatia <\/strong>has been mentioned several times within these pages. Apart from being the birthplace of Rudolf Steiner<\/a> and Flavio Barbiero,<\/a> it also offers a serious rival to Malta<\/a> as the place where St. Paul was shipwrecked, namely on the island of Mljet<\/a>! Coincidentally, Mljet is also claimed by some as the home of Calypso’s Ogygia<\/a>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Vedran Sino\u017eic in his book Na\u0161a Troja (Our Troy) <\/em>[1543<\/a>]. “Sino\u017eic provides numerous arguments that prove that the legendary Homer Troy is not located in Hisarlik in Turkey, but is located in the Republic of Croatia – today’s town of Motovun in Istria.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pero Metkovic recently announced that he had identified a number of pyramids in the vicinity of Dubrovnik. Not content with that revelation, he also claims to have located Atlantis nearby(b)<\/sup>. For good measure, he supports the idea of Croatians in America in ancient times!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When the sunken ruins of a city, dated to around 1500 BC, were discovered in 2015, near Croatia’s oldest city, Zadar, it generated the usual flurry of Atlantis speculation. There was a media report(c-e)<\/sup> in early 2017 in which treasure hunter Mark Kempf claimed to have discovered the remains of Atlantis, 30 miles off the coast of Croatia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So, with links to St. Paul, along with Ogygia, Troy, Atlantis and a collection of Egyptian-style pyramids within its territory, it has got to be the holiday destination of all time.<\/p>\r\n

Nevertheless, although it cannot be directly linked to Atlantis, I feel obliged to add a May 2023 report that a “prehistoric road was discovered under layers of sea mud at the<\/em> sunken Neolithic site of Soline, and helped connect the Hvar settlement to the now-isolated island of Korcula in Croatia<\/em>(g)<\/sup>. The ‘road’ has been dated to around 5000 BC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.thedubrovniktimes.com\/times-travel\/item\/8596-mljet-a-place-where-nymph-calypso-fell-in-love-with-odysseus<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/perometkovic.medium.com\/mistery-of-dubrovnik-pyramids-3dea77cedc57<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(c)<\/sup> http:\/\/empirenews.net\/lost-city-of-atlantis-uncovered-in-mediterranean-sea\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/worldnews\/comments\/3u7rce\/archeologists_in_croatia_announced_their\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(e)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/110019\/20151125\/3-500-year-old-sunken-town-discovered-in-croatia.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/road-built-7000-years-ago-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-mediterranean-sea<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Croatia has been mentioned several times within these pages. Apart from being the birthplace of Rudolf Steiner and Flavio Barbiero, it also offers a serious rival to Malta as the place where St. Paul was shipwrecked, namely on the island of Mljet! Coincidentally, Mljet is also claimed by some as the home of Calypso’s Ogygia(a). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2173,5515,4237,240,123,12,6721,2485,6720,65,5963,420,1125,2484,45,5514],"class_list":["post-48885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-calypso","tag-croatia","tag-dubrovnik","tag-flavio-barbiero","tag-homer","tag-malta","tag-mark-kempf","tag-mljet","tag-motovun","tag-ogygia","tag-pero-metkovic","tag-pyramids","tag-rudolf-steiner","tag-st-paul","tag-troy","tag-zadar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48885"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66184,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions\/66184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}