page_title: San Pietro Island
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: San Pietro Island / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Caposandalo ad ovest del isola di San Pietro
context_page_description: San Pietro Island is an island approximately 7 kilometres off the South western Coast of Sardinia, Italy, facing the Sulcis peninsula. With 51 square kilometres it is the sixth largest island of Italy by area. The approximately 6,000 inhabitants are mostly concentrated in the fishing town of Carloforte, the only comune in the island. It is included in the province of South Sardinia. It is named after Saint Peter.
  The island is connected by regular ferry service to Portovesme and Calasetta.
context_section_description: The island has been known since ancient times. The Phoenicians called it Enosim or Inosim, while for the Greek it was Hieracon Nesos and for the Romans Accipitrum Insula (Sparrowhawk Island). The latter is derived from the presence of the small Eleonora's falcon, which is still present on the island. San Pietro is home today to remains from the Phoenician, Roman and Sardinian civilizations.
  According to a legend, the island is so named because St. Peter visited the island in 46 AD.
  In 1739 century the then-uninhabited San Pietro was colonized by people of Ligurian language and ethnicity. They had fled the Republic of Genoa's colony on the small Tunisian island of Tabarka, established in 1542 for the purpose of coral fishing, after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia. Today most of the population has retained a variant of the Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino, which is also spoken in Calasetta, in the northern part of the neighboring Sant'Antioco island, whose residents are of the same origin. The island is twinned with the Spanish island of Tabarca, which was 
  likewise settled by former residents of the Tabarkan colony.
  The town of Carloforte (Fort Charles) on the Island of San Pietro was dedicated to Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who had granted the island to the Tabarkan refugees.
caption: Capo Sandalo, on the west of San Pietro Island
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