History Of Cagliari
This article presents a history of Cagliari, an Italy, Italian municipality and the capital city of the island of Sardinia. The city has been continuously inhabited since at least the neo-lithic period. Due to its strategic location in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and natural harbor, the city was prized and highly sought after by a number of Mediterranean empires and cultures. Etymology Cagliari was known to the Phoenicians and Punics, Carthaginians as Karaly ( xpu, 𐤊𐤓𐤋𐤉, ). This was latinization of names, Latinized variously as Carales, Karales, Caralis, and Calares (grammatically plural). Around the 16th century Roderigo Hunno Baeza, a Sardinian humanist, stated that the name "Caralis" had derived from the Greek ''kárs'' (, "head"), as Cagliari was the main centre of the island. The Semitist William Gesenius said the name came from ''Kar Baalis'', which in Phoenician language, Phoenician meant "city of Baal, God." This version was, albeit with some differe ...
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