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Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of about 1.6 million people. The list includes notable natives of Sardinia, as well as those who were born elsewhere but spent a large part of their active life in Sardinia. People of Sardinian heritage and descent are in a separate section of this article.
Sardinian people by occupation (4 C) A. Academics from Sardinia (2 C) Architects from Sardinia (10 P) B. Bishops in Sardinia (1 C, 6 P) C. People from the ...
Depiction of the Sardus Pater Babai in a Roman coin (59 B.C.). Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. [17] The ethnonym "S(a)rd" may belong to the Pre-Indo-European (or Indo-European [18]) linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, [19] [20] the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect.
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 ...
Giovanni Spano (March 1803 – 1878), was "the most important Sardinian archaeologist and linguist of the 19th century." [83] Luigi Palmieri (1807–1896), physicist and meteorologist, inventor of the mercury seismometer. Raffaele Piria (1814–1865), a chemist, was "the first to successfully synthesize salicylic acid." [84] The active ...
In the 19th century there is an interest of Sardinian authors for the history and culture of Sardinia: Giovanni Spano undertakes the first archaeological excavations, Giuseppe Manno writes the first great general history of the island, Pasquale Tola publishes important documents of the past and writes biographies of illustrious Sardinians.
Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea, was the first designated "Blue Zone." The term refers to a region where people live longer and healthier lives than average.
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 ...