Nuragus (

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: Valentia) is a small town, in administrative terms a ''

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'' (municipality), in the

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in the

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autonomous region of

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, located about north of the local capital

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. Nuragus borders the following municipalities:

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Nurallao Nurallao, Nuradda in sardinian language, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari. Nurallao borders the following municipalities: Isili, Laconi Laconi, ...

Archaeology

Copper trade originating in the

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in the

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kingdom of

Alashiya Alashiya ( akk, 𒀀𒆷𒅆𒅀 ''Alašiya'' -la-ši-ia uga, 𐎀𐎍𐎘𐎊 ''ẢLṮY''; Linear B: 𐀀𐀨𐀯𐀍 ''Alasios'' -ra-si-jo, also spelled Alasiya, also known as the Kingdom of Alashiya, was a state which existed in the Middle ...

(probably

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

) 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 The nuraghe (, ; plural: Logudorese Sardinian , Campidanese Sardinian , Italian ), or also nurhag in English, is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 B.C. To ...

'' called

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by locals. The find was published by

Luigi Pigorini Luigi Pigorini (10 January 1842 – 1 April 1925) was an Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer. Biography Pigorini was born at Fontanellato, near Parma. At the age of sixteen years, in 1858, he became an alumnus of the Mu ...

in 1904. Ingots from Serra Ilixi are on display at the National Archaeological Museum in

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

there is the

Giants' tomb Giants' tomb (Italian: '' Tomba dei giganti'', Sardinian: ''Tumba de zigantes'' / ''gigantis'') is the name given by local people and archaeologists to a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built during the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civi ...

of Aiodda, also from the Nuragic era.

References

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. Cities and towns in Sardinia {{Sardinia-geo-stub