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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.
From 1418 to 1516 Sardinia was ruled by viceroys from the Crown of Aragon, which merged into the Monarchy of Spain in 1516. Lluís de Pontons (1418-1419) Joan de Corbera (1419-1420) Riambau de Corbera (1420-1421) Bernat de Centelles (1421-1437) Francesc d'Erill i de Centelles (1437-1448) Nicolás Carroz de Arborea (1460-1479)
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First viceroy of New Spain and third viceroy of Peru: Granada: 1495: 1552 Ramón Maria Narvaez: General and Prime Minister of Spain: Loja: 1800: 1868 Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro: First Lady of Honduras: Brenes: 1963 - Miguel Primo de Rivera: General and dictator of Spain: Jerez de la Frontera: 1870: 1930 Nicolás Salmerón
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.
Charles V (1500–1558), Holy Roman Emperor (1530–1556 but did not formally abdicate until 1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506–1555), King of Spain (1516–1556), King of Naples and Sicily (1516–1554), Archduke of Austria (1519–1521), King of the Romans (or German King); often referred to as "Carlos V", but he ruled ...
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sardinia from the 14th century. Sardinia is traditionally known to have been initially ruled by the Nuragic civilization, which was followed by Greek colonization, conquest by the Carthagians, and occupied by the Romans for around a thousand years, including the rule of the Vandals in the 5th and 6th centuries CE.
The etymology of Peru: The word Peru may be derived from Birú, the name of a local ruler who lived near the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, in the early 16th century. [29] When his possessions were visited by Spanish explorers in 1522, they were the southernmost part of the New World yet known to Europeans. [ 30 ]