Crossword clues for sardinia
sardinia
- An island in the Mediterranean west of Italy
- The kingdom of Sardinia was the nucleus for uniting Italy during the 19th century
- The Italian region on the island of Sardinia
- Cagliari is its capital
- Cagliari's locale
- Cagliari's island
- Medit. island
- Siren's beginning song with noise in island
- Second-largest Mediterranean island, after Sicily
- Island noise interrupting end of wondrous song
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large island west of Italy, Latin, from Greek Sardo; perhaps named for the local Iberian people who settled there; the original form and meaning of the name is lost. A Punic (Phoenician) stelle from 7c. B.C.E. refers to it as Shardan. The oblique cases are sometimes Sardonos, etc., as if from *Sardon. Related: Sardinian.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 362
Land area (2000): 0.641455 sq. miles (1.661360 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.641455 sq. miles (1.661360 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70534
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.008718 N, 83.804213 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45171
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Sardinia
Wikipedia
Sardinia ( ; , / , Sassarese: Sardhigna, Gallurese: Saldigna, Catalan: Sardenya, Tabarchino: Sardegna) is an island located in the Western Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy, which goes by the official name of Regione Autonoma della Sardegna / Regione Autònoma de Sardigna (Autonomous Region of Sardinia).
The region has its capital in its largest city, Cagliari, and is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city. Its indigenous language and the other minority languages ( Sassarese, Corsican Gallurese, Catalan Algherese and Ligurian Tabarchino) spoken by the Sardinians enjoy "equal dignity" with Italian under regional law.
Sardinia is an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Sardinia may also refer to:
Usage examples of "sardinia".
This was all they could allot between them, since Sextus was still occupying Sardinia and Sicily, and other regions outside of Italy were in a state of turmoil.
In September a treaty had been concluded at Worms between his Britannic majesty, the king of Sardinia, and the queen of Hungary.
Philippus-looking brown and extremely fit-had arrived from Sardinia, unofficially convoked the Senate, and browbeaten that cowed body into voting nonexistent public funds to give back to Sulla what the State had taken away.
The defence of this important post the king of Sardinia had committed to the care of the count de Brigueras, who formed an encampment behind the lines, with fourteen battalions of Piedmontese and Austrians, while divers detachments were posted along all the passes of the Alps.
Sardinia, where in many regions bandits took, ransomed, and released more or less as they pleased.
Thus, to finish here with the subject, though the chapter of it never actually finished till his death, he made years afterwards, when he was a successful and a desperately busy author, a long, troublesome, and costly journey to Sardinia to carry out a plan of resmelting the slag from Roman and other mines there.
Avolaand those from North Africa, Sardinia, and southern Francecontain a small percentage of bitter almonds, which give marzipan and almond milk their characteristic bitter fragrance and taste.
North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.
Roman See for as long as I can recallboth the North and the South Franks had ships there, as did the Spanish, the Aragonese, the Emirate of Granada, the Sultan of Morocco, the Hafsid caliph, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, the King of Sicily, the Prince of Serbia, the Archcount of Corfu, and the King of Hungary.
As we approached the gulf, or bay, of Cagliari, in Sardinia, a strong north wind came from the shore, and we had a whole disagreeable day of tacking, but next morning, it was Sunday, we found ourselves at anchor near the mole, where we landed.
But immediately afterwards the Directoire was faced by the unpleasant fact that their new general, disregarding his instructions, had concluded an armistice with Sardinia.
Churchill said that if Italy made a separate peace we should have the use of Sardinia and the Dodecanese without having to fight for them.
This must include the surrender to our garrisons of Sardinia, the Dodecanese, and Corfu, as well as of all the naval and air bases on the Italian mainland as soon as they can be taken over.
Because the majority of them have farming backgrounds, the majority of them are currently working out their debts in our grainlands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Africa.
He made himself known at Berlin by his services as ambassador to the King of Sardinia.