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  2. History of Sardinia - Wikipedia

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    The recorded history of Sardinia begins with its contacts with the various people who sought to dominate western Mediterranean trade in classical antiquity: Phoenicians, Punics and Romans. Initially under the political and economic alliance with the Phoenician cities, it was partly conquered by Carthage in the late 6th century BC and then ...

  3. History of Cagliari - Wikipedia

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    The very reason for the existence of this ancient city lies in its being both a powerful military structure to defend the main port of southern Sardinia and a basis for control of the western Mediterranean, as well as the outlet for the grain-growing region and livestock products (cheese, leather), iron, lead, copper and zinc mining from the ...

  4. Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861) - Wikipedia

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    Before 1847, only the island of Sardinia proper was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, while the other mainland possessions (principally the Duchy of Savoy, Principality of Piedmont, County of Nice, Duchy of Genoa, and others) were held by the Savoys in their own right, hence forming a composite monarchy and a personal union, [5] [6] [7] which ...

  5. Nuragic civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...

  6. Sardinia and Corsica - Wikipedia

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    Sardinia was always ruled by a praefectus (provinciae) Sardiniae and from Claudius on, the main and official title was enriched by the attribute procurator Augusti. [8] [9] [10] The provinces of Corsica and Sardinia were incorporated into the Diocese of Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, along with Sicily and Malta.

  7. Sardinia - Wikipedia

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    Sardinia. Sardinia (/ s ɑːr ˈ d ɪ n i ə / sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa]) [a] [b] is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km [5] south of the ...

  8. Kingdom of Sardinia - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Sardinia, also referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica among other names, [nb 1] was a country in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century, and from 1297 to 1768 for the Corsican part of this kingdom. [7]

  9. Timeline of Cagliari - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .