The Regional Government of Sardinia has recognized Gallurese, along with Sassarese as separate languages, distinct from Sardinian.

The Nuorese was a centre of the Nuragic civilization ( which developed in Sardinia from c. 1500 BC to c. 250 BC ), as attested by more than 30 Nuragic sites, such has the village discovered in the countryside of Tanca Manna, just outside Nuoro, which was made of about 800 huts.

It is one of the main tourist destinations of Sardinia, has a long beach ( more than 15 Kilometers of white sand ) and a system of rivers of biological importance.

Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture, the Nuragic civilization.

Sardinia has ten regional parks and three national parks.

The University of Sassari is the oldest in Sardinia ( founded by the Jesuits in 1562-1627 ), and has a high reputation, especially in Jurisprudence, Veterinary, Medicine and Agriculture.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

With 500 films, short subjects, animated cartoons and documentaries in 2009, it has become the most prominent film festival in Sardinia.

Officially the IEC provides standards for the language as a whole: the Philological Section has members from Catalonia proper, Northern Catalonia ( located in France ), the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Alghero in Sardinia and the Principality of Andorra ( the only country where Catalan is the sole official language ).

Sardinia has Aegean sites ( e. g. at Abini near Teti ) and Spain has yielded objects recognized as Aegean from tombs near Cadiz and from Saragossa.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco has theorised that prior to being used in Leland's Gospel, Aradia was originally a supernatural figure in Italian folklore, who was later merged with other folkloric figures such as the sa Rejusta of Sardinia.

A possible reference to Pygmalion is an interpretation of the Nora Stone, found on Sardinia in 1773 and, though its precise finding place has been forgotten, dated by paleographic methods to the 9th century BC.

In this rendering, Cross has restored the missing top of the tablet ( estimated at two lines ) based on the content of the rest of the inscription, as referring to a battle that has been fought and won by general Milkaton, son of Shubna, against the Sardinians at the site of, surely Tarshish ; Cross conjectures that Tarshish here " is most easily understood as the name of a refinery town in Sardinia, presumably Nora or an ancient site nearby.

The town of Sardinia has 38 historic buildings.

Only one instance of their own endonym has been found to date: an inscription from Falerii Novi from the late 2nd century AD refers to the falesce quei in Sardinia sunt, " the Faliscans who are in Sardinia ," where falesce is the nominative plural case.

It is closely related to the Common Starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

From the earliest period, Sardinia has been in contact with extra-insular communities in Corsica, Liguria, Lombardy, and Provence.

From the third millennium BC on, comb-impressed Beaker ware, as well as other Beaker material in Ozieri or sub-Ozieri contexts, has been found, demonstrating continuing relationships with the western Mediterranean ; it appears likely that Sardinia was the intermediary that brought Beaker materials to Tuscany and Sicily.

The cyclopean nuraghes has more or less related cousins like the Mycenaean tholoi, the Corsican Torre, the Talaiots of the Balearic Isles, the Sesi of Sicily, and more ( the probably much later Brochs of Scotland are mentioned as well ): All these architectural forms have their origins from a common cultural matrix widespread in the Mediterranean, but in Sardinia there was an original and grandiose development that has not be found elsewhere.

At their height about 500 B. C., they were a significant maritime power with a presence in Sardinia and the Aegean Sea.

The Spanish Sparrow is not known to breed in the Balearic Islands, the Aegean Islands, Corfu, or the Peloponnese, but it occurs on Sardinia, Pantelleria, and smaller islands near the coast.

The Iberian conifer forests ecoregion of the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and Portugal ; the Italian sclerophyllous and semideciduous forests ecoregion in France and Italy ; the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests ecoregion of southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia ; the Illyrian deciduous forests of the eastern coast of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas in Croatia and Albania ; and the Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests ecoregion of the southern Balkan Peninsula in Greece.

Small-scale models of nuraghe have often been excavated at religious sites ( e. g. in the " maze " temple at the Su Romanzesu site near Bitti in central Sardinia ).

He hypothesizes that Biblical Sisera was a Sherden general and that the archaeological site at el-Ahwat ( whose architecture resembles Nuraghe sites in Sardinia ) was Sisera's capital, Harosheth Haggoyim.

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Category: Roman sites of Sardinia

In ornaments derived from Phoenician sites, such as Cyprus and Sardinia, patterns of gold wire are laid down with great delicacy on a gold ground, but the art was advanced to its highest perfection in the Greek and Etruscan filigree of the 6th to the 3rd centuries BC.

( Cauvin ; Chataigner 1998 ) In Sardinia one of the four main sites for sourcing the material deposits of obsidian within the Mediterranean, trade of this were replaced in the 3rd millennia by trade in copper and silver.

Category: Roman sites of Sardinia

( Cauvin ; Chataigner 1998 ) In Sardinia one of the four main sites for sourcing the material deposits of obsidian within the Mediterranean, trade of this were replaced in the 3rd millennium by trade in copper and silver.

Napoleon earned the hatred of the Paolists by pretending to support Paoli and then turning against him ( payment, one supposes, for Sardinia ).

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley ( that accounts for almost a half of the national population ) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Appennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated.

During this time there was unrest in the towns of Menton and Roquebrune, which declared independence, hoping for annexation by Sardinia and participation in the Italian Risorgimento.

In 1945 he was named to the National Consult and collaborated to the elaboration of the special regional status for Sardinia.

For decades, between World War II and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d ' Azione ( PSdAz ), Sardinian autonomist party claiming for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in Sardinia.

Hamilcar had led the initial Carthaginian peace negotiations and was blamed for the clause that allowed the Roman popular assembly to increase the war indemnity and annex Corsica and Sardinia, but his superlative generalship was instrumental in enabling Carthage to ultimately quell the mercenary uprising, ironically fought against many of the same mercenary troops he had trained.

The castle became then the seat of the Baron of Posada, a title and a fief created in 1431 for Don Nicolò Carroz and formally ended in 1856, when it was finally bought by the kingdom of Sardinia ( the last one of all Sardinian fiefs ).

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Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni said in a TED Talk that she spoke to a " part-timer " with the Red Brigades who claimed that he used to sail between Lebanon and Italy during summers, ferrying Soviet weapons for a fee from the PLO to Sardinia where the weapons were distributed to " other organizations in Europe.

The name refers to the area of Logudoro ( term originated as corrupt blending of the kingdom's name of Logu de Torres ) in which it is spoken, mainly a northern subregion of the island of Sardinia which mainly defers to Ozieri ( Othieri ) and Nuoro ( Nùgoro ) for culture and language, as well as history, with important particularities in the western area, where the most important town is Ittiri.

He was probably a Roman soldier martyred for the Christian faith during the persecution of Diocletian in 304 in the city of Porto Torres (), according to the legend on the orders of the governor ( preside ) of Sardinia and Corsica, a certain Barbarus.

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However, Italian nationalists, championed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, called for the removal of Austria in the interest of Italian unification.

The Shardanas or warriors from Sardinia who fought for Ramses II against the Hittities were armed with maces consisting of wooden sticks with bronze heads.

Although the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of Louis XIV, the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, including the former Spanish Netherlands ( now called the Austrian Netherlands, including most of modern Belgium ), the Duchy of Milan in Northern Italy, and Naples and Sardinia in Southern Italy.

The particular name of this historic period takes after the Nuraghi, the biggest megalithic edifices ever found in Europe, which still today represent a symbol for Sardinia.

The people of Parma voted for a union with the kingdom of Sardinia on 13 March 1860.

Seat of the important University of Cagliari and the Primate Roman Catholic archdiocese of Sardinia, the city is an important regional cultural, educational, political and artistic centre, known for its diverse Art Nouveau architecture and several monuments.

Pisa and the other maritime republic of Genoa had a keen interest in Sardinia because it was a perfect strategic base for controlling the commercial routes between Italy and North Africa.

Togliatti sent Berlinguer back to Sardinia to prepare for his political career.

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In 1775 the king, who in 1718 had swapped his sovereignty of Sicily for the Kingdom of Sardinia, destroyed all that remained of the ancient liberties of the commune.