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Selargius
Selargius, Ceràrgius or Ceraxius in Sardinian, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about northeast of Cagliari. It has 28,323 inhabitants as of 2025. The village exists since the Middle Ages as part of the Cagliari Campidanu part of the Giudicato of Cagliari. In 1928 it was merged by the Cagliari commune but gained again its autonomy in 1947, after a local referendum. Selargius is part of the Cagliari metropolitan area. Selargius borders the municipalities of Cagliari, Monserrato, Quartu Sant'Elena, Quartucciu, Sestu and Settimo San Pietro. Demographics See also *Molentargius - Saline Regional Park 250px, View towards the Molentargius salt mills. Molentargius - Saline Regional Park (Italian: ''Parco naturale regionale Molentargius - Saline'') is a regional park in Sardinia, Italy. It was established in 1999 to protect and enhance a site ... References External linksOfficial website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagliari Metropolitan Area
The Metropolitan City of Cagliari (; Sardinian: ''tzittadi metropolitana de Casteddu'') is a metropolitan city in Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of Cagliari and includes 17 ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It was established by law in 2016 and replaced the province of Cagliari. The current president is the mayor of Cagliari, Massimo Zedda. The population is 417,079 as of 2025. This figure can rise due to commuting into the functional urban area to approximately 477,000. Geography The Metropolitan City of Cagliari extends over the southern part of the Campidano plain, between two mountain ranges. The Sulcis Range is to the west and includes Monti Arcosu, , and Punta Sebera. To the east is the Monte Linias Range, including and Sette Fratelli. These mountains are composed of Ordovician shale and Carboniferous granite and do not exceed . An exception is which is . Climate The Metropolitan City of Cagliari has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry Summers and mild Winter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan City Of Cagliari
The Metropolitan City of Cagliari (; Sardinian language, Sardinian: ''tzittadi metropolitana de Casteddu'') is a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of Cagliari and includes 17 ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It was established by law in 2016 and replaced the province of Cagliari. The current president is the mayor of Cagliari, Massimo Zedda. The population is 417,079 as of 2025. This figure can rise due to commuting into the Larger urban zone, functional urban area to approximately 477,000. Geography The Metropolitan City of Cagliari extends over the southern part of the Campidano plain, between two mountain ranges. The Sulcis Mountains, Sulcis Range is to the west and includes Monte Arcosu, Monti Arcosu, , and Punta Sebera. To the east is the Monte Linias Range, including and Sette Fratelli. These mountains are composed of Ordovician shale and Carboniferous granite and do not exceed . An exception is which is . Climate Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica. It has over 1.5 million inhabitants as of 2025. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of Autonomous administrative division, domestic autonomy being granted by a Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian language, Italian and Sardinian language, Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces of Italy, provinces and a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city. Its capital (and largest city) is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese dialect, Algherese Catalan language, Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinian Language
Sardinian or Sard ( , , , , or , ) is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The original character of the Sardinian language among the Romance idioms has long been known among linguists."Da G. I. Ascoli in poi, tutti i linguisti sono concordi nell'assegnare al sardo un posto particolare fra gl'idiomi neolatini per i varî caratteri che lo distinguono non-solo dai dialetti italiani, ma anche dalle altre lingue della famiglia romanza, e che appaiono tanto nella fonetica, quanto nella morfologia e nel lessico." ("From G. I. Ascoli onwards, all linguists agree in giving Sardinian a special place among the neo-Latin languages because of the various characteristics that distinguish it not only from the Italian dialects, but also from the other languages of the Romance family, and that appear as much in its phonetics as in its morphology and lexicon.") Almagia, Roberto; Cortesi, Fabrizio; Salfi, Mario; Sera, Gio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagliari
Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,627 inhabitants, while its Metropolitan City of Cagliari, metropolitan city, 16 other nearby municipalities, has about 417,079 inhabitants. According to Eurostat, the population of the Functional urban area, functional urban area, the commuting zone of Cagliari, rises to 476,975. Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of Sardinia. An ancient city with a long history, Cagliari has seen the rule of several civilisations. Under the buildings of the modern city there is a continuous stratification attesting to human settlement over the course of some five thousand years, from the Neolithic to today. Historical sites include the prehistoric Domus de Janas, partly damaged by cave activity, a large Ancient Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settimo San Pietro
Settimo San Pietro, Sètimu in Sardinian language, is a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the Italian region of Sardinia, located about northeast of Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 .... It has 6,965 inhabitants. Settimo San Pietro borders the following municipalities: Quartucciu, Selargius, Serdiana, Sestu, Sinnai, Soleminis. Demographics See also * S'acqua 'e is dolus References Cities and towns in Sardinia {{Sardinia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monserrato
Monserrato (''Pauli'' or ''Paulli'' in Sardinian language) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, southern Sardinia, Italy, located about northeast of Cagliari. Monserrato borders the following municipalities: Cagliari, Quartu Sant'Elena, Quartucciu, Selargius, Sestu. Sights include the Gothic church of Sant'Ambrogio. History In the Middle Ages, the village was known as ''Pauli'' (Sardinian language for marsh), and was part of the Giudicato of Cagliari. Later owned by the Republic of Pisa The Republic of Pisa () was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian t ..., the House of Aragon and the Giudicato of Arborea, it was depopulated by plague in 1348. Later it was a Spanish and then Savoyard fief. Monserrato was an autonomous comune until 1928, when it was annexed to Cag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campidano
Campidano () is a plain located in South-Western Sardinia (Italy), covering approximately 100 kilometres between Cagliari and Oristano. Geography Geologically, it is a graben, a tectonic structure formed in the mid-Pliocene/early Pleistocene (4 to 2 million years ago). Later it was subject to large sedimentary deposition phenomena, creating an overall thickness of 600 m of sediments. The plain is crossed by the Tirso River, the longest in Sardinia. History Agriculture has been successful in Campidano since the Neolithic, continuing on through the Punic and the Romans, who cultivated here grains and grape. Dams of the large Sardinian rivers nourish the artichoke and wheat cultures, also typical products of this zone. Paddy fields are present near Oristano. The Sardinians from this area, and by extension all the people inhabiting the lowlands of Southern Sardinia, are called Campidanese (, ). See also *Province of South Sardinia The province of South Sardinia (; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giudicato Of Cagliari
The Judicate of Cagliari (, ) was one of the Sardinian medieval kingdoms, four kingdoms or judicates (''iudicati'', literally "judgeship") into which Sardinia was divided during the Middle Ages. The Judicate of Cagliari occupied the entire southern portion of the island and was composed of thirteen subdivisions called . It bordered the judicates of Judicate of Arborea, Arborea to the northwest and Judicate of Logudoro, Logudoro and Judicate of Gallura, Gallura to the northeast. Origins and extent The exact date of founding of the Judicate of Cagliari is unknown. After the Byzantine Empire's conquest of Sardinia in 534 as part of the Vandalic War, the island became one of the provinces of the Exarchate of Africa and was governed by a magistrate, , resident in Cagliari. Sardinia remained a Byzantine province until the early 8th century, when Arabs, Arab and Berbers, Berber expansionism and piracy on the Mediterranean began to make communications with the Imperial government at Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian National Institute Of Statistics
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy. The institute conducts a variety of activities, including the census of population, economic censuses, and numerous social, economic, and environmental surveys and analyses. Istat is the largest producer of statistical information in Italy and is actively involved in the European Statistical System, which is overseen by Eurostat. History The Italian National Institute of Statistics () was established by Legislative decree no. 1162 on 9 July, 1926, as the Central Institute of Statistics () in order to replace the General Statistics Division of the Ministry of Agriculture. Corrado Gini was established as the first director of the institute, under the authority of the head of state. The institute, with a staff of about 170 workers, was charged with publishing the data of the 6th general population census, generated by updating the figures from previous censuses carried o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (, , or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from Latin, together with Sardinian language, Sardinian. It is spoken by about 68 million people, including 64 million native speakers as of 2024. Italian is an official language in Languages of Italy, Italy, Languages of San Marino, San Marino, Languages of Switzerland, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), and Languages of Vatican City, Vatican City; it has official Minority language, minority status in Minority languages of Croatia, Croatia, Slovene Istria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the municipalities of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Santa Tereza, Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Encantado, and Venda Nova do Imigrante in Languages of Brazil#Language co-officialization, Brazil. Italian is also spoken by large Italian diaspora, immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
