Nuragus

Nuragus
Nuragus
	Comune
	Comune di Nuragus
	Panorama of Nuragus
	Location of Nuragus
	Nuragus Location of Nuragus in Sardinia Nuragus Nuragus (Sardinia)
	Coordinates: 39°47′N 9°2′E
Country	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Province	South Sardinia
Frazioni	Lixius
Government
• Mayor	Giovanni Daga
Area
• Total	19.9 km2 (7.7 sq mi)
Elevation	359 m (1,178 ft)
Population (31 December 2010)[1]
• Total	968
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Nuraghesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	08030
Dialing code	0782
Website	Official website

Nuragus (Latin: Valentia[2]) is a small town,[3] in administrative terms a comune (municipality), in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian autonomous region of Sardinia, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of the local capital Cagliari.

Nuragus borders the following municipalities: Genoni, Gesturi, Isili, Laconi, Nurallao.

Archaeology

Copper trade originating in the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age kingdom of Alashiya (probably Cyprus) reached as far west as Sardinia, where five typical oxhide ingots were first turned up by a plough in 1857, at the foot of a demolished nuraghe called Serra Ilixi by locals.[4] The find was published by Luigi Pigorini in 1904.[4] Ingots from Serra Ilixi are on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari.[3]

Between Nuragus and Nurallao there is the Giants' tomb of Aiodda, also from the Nuragic era.[3]

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References

All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 48.
Official tourism website of Sardinia. Town Nuragus, (c) Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Assessorato del Turismo, Artigianato e Commercio. Accessed July 2018.
Lo Schiavo, Fulvia (2017). Jean MacIntosh Turfa (ed.). The Western Mediterranean before the Etruscans. The Etruscan World. Routledge Worlds (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9781138060357. Retrieved 18 July 2018.

External links

Official website, with useful links under "Il paese", including useful addresses, history, archaeology and cultural heritage, festivals, churches etc. In Italian. Accessed July 2018.
Nuragus at the official tourism website of Sardinia, with plenty of historical and archaeological information. Accessed July 2018.

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[istat-1] All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

[2] Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 48.

[Regione-3] Official tourism website of Sardinia. Town Nuragus, (c) Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Assessorato del Turismo, Artigianato e Commercio. Accessed July 2018.

[LoSchiavo-4] Lo Schiavo, Fulvia (2017). Jean MacIntosh Turfa (ed.). The Western Mediterranean before the Etruscans. The Etruscan World. Routledge Worlds (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9781138060357. Retrieved 18 July 2018.