Šćedro

Šćedro () is a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, lying south of Hvar opposite the village of Zavala. It covers with a deeply indented north coast forming well-sheltered anchorages such as Lovišće (Veli porat) and Mostir. The island's Croatian name is commonly said to derive from štedri (“bountiful/merciful”) in Old Slavic, referring to its protective coves. In antiquity it was known as Tauris (It. Tauricola/Torcola).

== Name == Already recorded as Tavris on the Tabula Peutingeriana, the accent must have been on the in the later form Táuricula, or the would not be syncopated, as occurred to produce the form Torcola. The island is called Torcola on the 1373 portolan chart of Francesco Pizzigano, the 1490 portolan printed by Bernardino Rizo da Novara, the 1663 map Congregatio nationis Illyricae, maps by Vincenzo Coronelli from 1688 and 1694, the 1718 map HR-DAZD-383, the 1771 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, the 1771 map HR-SKST R-684, the 1781 map by Giuseppe Antonio Grandis and the map by Vincenzo de Lucio drawn around 1790.