Stridon was a town in the Roman province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...

 of Dalmatia

Dalmatia (Roman province)

Dalmatia was an ancient Roman province. Its name is probably derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae which lived in the area of the eastern Adriatic coast in Classical antiquity....

. The town is located near modern Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

 but the exact location is unknown. The town is especially known as the birthplace of Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

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. From Stridon also came Domnus of Stridon, a bishop who took part in the First Council of Nicaea

First Council of Nicaea

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, and priest Lupicinus of Stridon. In 379

379

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 the town was destroyed by the Goths

Goths

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. Jerome wrote about it in his work De viris illustribus

De viris illustribus

De viris illustribus, meaning "On Illustrious / Famous Men", represents a trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature that was revived during the Italian Renaissance and inspired the assembly or commissioning of series of portraits of outstanding men— and sometimes, by the sixteenth century, of...

: "Hieronymus patre Eusebio natus, oppido Stridonis, quod a Gothis eversum, Dalmatiae quondam Pannoniaeque confinium fuit...".

It is possible Stridon was located either in today's Croatia

Croatia

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n or Slovenia

Slovenia

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n territory. Possible locations are: Sdrin, Štrigova

Štrigova

Štrigova is a village and municipality in Međimurje County, in northern Croatia.-Geography and demographics:The village of Štrigova is located 19 kilometres north-west of Čakovec, the seat and largest city of Međimurje County, and approximately two kilometres south-east of the border crossing with...

, Zrenj (Croatia), Starod

Starod

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 (Slovenia), Zrin

Zrin

Zrin is a village in Croatia, Sisak-Moslavina county.In the past it was the seat of Croatian noble family Šubić. Later they called themselves Zrinski, after Zrin. It was a strong point of Croatian defence in the Ottoman wars. There are still ruins of Zrin Castle in the village. In World War II the...

and many others in both countries.