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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.
Pages in category "People from Sardinia" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on the island of Sardinia is present in the form of nuraghes and other prehistoric monuments, which dot the land. 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.
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 ...
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.
This category includes people with strong links—either by birth or by association—to the Kingdom of Sardinia. This category is for people from The Kingdom of Sardinia from 1297 until 1861. After about 1720 it includes areas in the mainland of Italy and is often called Sardinia-Piedmont.
The title is relevant because "list of people from Sardinia" means people born in Sardinia, on the contrary "list of Sardinians" is referred to a whole ethnicity (so also to people with sardinian descent born out of the island, large part on the italian mainland, so in the same country).
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