History Sardinia Historical hints of Sardinia

History Sardinia: Historical hints

I hit the centre of some civilization nuragica in the age of the bronze, Sardinia was caught up and colonized to the extent of the coastal zones, by the phoenixes (Sec.IX VIII a.C.) And you give Carthaginians (Sec.VI a.C.)In open contrast with the native populations of the hinterland and Greeks of Sicily (Alalia, 535 a.C battle).
Busy by the Carthaginians (509 a.C.) and to them inanely rebeled (368 a.C.) to the term of the first war punica (241 a.C.) what was gained from Rome, given her up in province with Corsica (226 a.C.).

It kept the control (riots of the 177-176 and the 126-122 a.C) painfully. Up to Augustan reform (Sec.I a.C.) shopping blooming center during the empire, dominion of the vandalic Genserico (455), then some Byzantine (534) was subject to repeated attacks of Saracens (X Sec.VIII) before of the political reorganization and administrative what instituted the judged autonomous of Cagliari, Arboreous, four, Logudoro and Gallura.

Entrance in the aims expansionistic in Pisa and Genoa (Sec.XI), was busy and shared out by the two Republics to then pass to the Aragonese dominos under Alfonso (1420), decaying progressively for the continuos riots, plagues and famines and the barbaric raids.

cagliari

His origins are very ancient, and from the Phoenician epoch some Sardinia is maybe the only town to have been inhabited uninterruptedly. The center preserves still impressive tracks of the Roman period in his amphitheatre, while the historical whole core is characterized by the architecture Pisan, which the Elephant's tower is of one of the many examples. Called "Su Casteddu", rises on a relief, and was protected by high walls. Cagliari, that at the end of the' 700 passed to Piedmonteses, knew an intense life in the last two centuries. Today it is at a turist, center cultural, industrial town time and take, and in the postwar widened in the flat areas, reaching the foot of the hills. Some natural ancient environment stays still wide track in the Tins.

nuoro

Nuoro rises on a rocky ridge along the layout of the clearway that crosses the heart of the island, from west to east. Of recent development, still in the '500 was not much more than a village of shepherds, and such remained up to half of '800. With the emergent strengths of the new state national that Nuoro grew as bound administrative and cultural, center with a process of urbanization and development to the sector of the services, what did not yet stop was. The town has an appearance prevalently eight and twentieth-century. An interesting Museum of the life owns and some traditions popular Sardinian that picks up a rich documentation on the customs, the uses and the traditions more typical of the Barbagia.

oristano

Natural of the near Tharros punica and Roman, heir he has a medieval long history as sentence seat. Moles secc. XVIII and XIX knew a remarkable expansion, he took to the building of the palaces of more importance and the churches. In the center find remarkable testimonies of the medieval town, as the tower of Marian II.

sassari

The first core of the town goes up again to the Middle Ages, even if the zone turns out lived in by very ancient age. In the sec. XV the town comes in to do part of the Kingdom of Sardinia and knows a season of wealth, that he approaches her to the Renaissance and the Italian culture. In the '700, after being laid waste by the plague, for initiative some Savoy knew a revival and the introduction of agricultural new cultivations, the University's inauguration and the be full of the commerce. In the '800, for the continuos expansion, ancient walls were knocked down and the town spread toward the plain.

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