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Skradin is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia. It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and from Split. The main attraction of the park, Slapovi Krke, is a series of waterfalls, the biggest of which, Skradinski buk, was named after Skradin.
Before the Roman Empire, the settlement was Illyrians, with the particularity of having the locally recurring suffix -ona. The prevailing theory links the root of the Illyrian toponym to a term meaning "steep", as a derivation of *sko/ard(h)-, and it has been compared with the Scardus mountains in southern Illyria. p. 363. After an initial development in Vulgar Latin in the form -una, the Illyrian suffix was reflected in South Slavic as -in.. The survival of several of such toponyms in the area (e.g. Solin from Salona, Labin from Albona etc) points to the continuation of Illyrian settlements since ancient times. Another, more peripheral, theory says the root of the name might be related to that of the Scordisci, a Celtic or Illyrian tribe. Though initially located in present-day Slavonia and Syrmia, the Scordisci might have been allied with the local tribe of the Dalmatae, as mercenaries, which would explain their presence in Dalmatia.
After the Roman conquest, Skradin became an administrative and military centre of the region, and was mentioned as a municipium in 530. It was destroyed during the Migration Period in the 7th century, and restored under Croatian king in Early Middle Ages.
During the 10th century, it was one of the fortified towns in Croatia, as the centre of the Skradin županija.
In October 1683, some uskoks from Venetian Dalmatia, mainly Morlachs from Ravni Kotari, rose up against the Sanjak-bey of Klis and took Skradin and several other border towns which had been deserted by their Ottoman Muslim population, who was fearing an attack by the Morlachs.Radovan Samardžić (1990). 9788617015631, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. . ISBN 9788617015631 The Venetians finally took Skradin in 1684 and the town recovered under their rule, during the 18th century, becoming the center of a municipality in 1705.
Later, it was occupied by Napoleon as part of the French Empire, then Austria-Hungary.
In time it lost its importance as the centre of the region, which shifted to Šibenik, and so it stagnated - the Diocese of Skradin was abandoned in 1828.Naklada Naprijed, The Croatian Adriatic Tourist Guide, pg. 209, Zagreb (1999),
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