Talk:Sardinia

message: Would be great to expand the tourist information. Discuss lodging, activities perhaps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rknoerk (talk • contribs) 18:08, 25 March 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not meant to be a travel guide. Such information would be more suitable for Wikitravel. See Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information, number 3. SCHZMO ✍ 23:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

text: The Local tourist information website for Alghero can be found here - which has lots of relevant links and tourist advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.118.255.95 (talk) 15:45, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Tourist information

message: What are these recent theories about a different location for the pillars of Hercules and what relevance does it have??
Furius — Preceding undated comment added 10:43, 4 September 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: About the relevance, the UNESCO and world scientists are studying it. That means it is true, or there are many evidences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.16.80.150 (talk) 10:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Look deeper into Sarda Pitar Myths. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.88.176 (talk) 21:20, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Pillars of Hercules

message: I would like to know how Sardinia got it's name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.200.111.233 (talk) 23:27, 20 September 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: (I corrected your spelling and grammar a bit. I hope you don't mind!) Matuko 03:09, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did Sardinia get it's name? 

message: In the Madalina attols is a cove named Caprarese Cove.  I am courious of the origin of the name for obvious reasons.  Mike Caprarese (mcaprarese @ aol.com ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.16.145.43 (talk) 18:50, 23 December 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: There aren't attols in Sardinia, ahahah, it's not located in the Tropics, and  the island is called "La Maddalena"!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.13.207.47 (talk) 17:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name Caprarese Cove 

message: I removed 2 items. The first is Sardegna.Com, which may have some information on Sardinia but presents itself very clearly as a property rental and hotel reservation site.
ItalianVisits.com, is just link spam, a single unfinished page with 3 small uncaptioned photos and 1 link, the purpose of which is to draw people to "I.V. Tours".
The person who added ItalianVisits has systematically gone thru the 20 regions on Wikipedia to add that site to each, without any regard for improving Wikipedia, no attempt even at adding the official site for the various regions. This is therefore a link spam campaign, and should probably be considered vandalism. I've warned that user, and if need be (there have already been some reverts for other regional pages) will put them on the Vandalism in Progress page. If you have this page on your watchlist, please help in maintaining the quality of the links!
If someone wants to do some footwork, there are probably several good Sardinian sites out there to add. Bill 13:59, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Link spam

message: Bill, I am the "someone" who added links to ItalianVisits.com on the various Italian Regional sites - and I don't think I was commiting "link spam" or engaged in vandalism when I did so.   ItalianVisits.com is a serious endeavour being undertaken by my daughter, Jesse Andrews, who for the past 2 years has been living in Praia A Mare, in the northwest region of Calabria.  My other daughter, Arianna, is attending university at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, and also contributes to the ItalianVisits website when she can. 
If you look at the section on  Calabria, you will see how much work and effort has been put into cataloguing towns and villages that are virtually unknown to English-speaking people, whether they are travelers or tourists, or people who have a curiousity about the area.  You will note, I hope, the abundance of wonderful photographs that compliment the text, and present our viewers with images that otherwise would not be available.  Incidentally, you should also note the link to Wikipedia resources whereever and whenever there is material on Wikidpedia about a region, town or other locale.  We are as committed to Wikipedia as you are.
Jesse has created a vessel into which more information is being added every day.  I just spent 15 days in  Umbria,  for instance, and added pages for Perugia, Assisi, Spello, Bevagna, Gubbio and the Regional Park at Colfiorito.  Other contributors, like Katherine Lavallee, have added information about other towns in  Tuscany.  Such contributions are solicited eagerly so that we can fatten the content on the site.  
ItalianVisits.com is hardly a come-on for selling tour packages, although we are trying to attract people to "unknown" parts of Italy, and in so doing, get some business to those out of the way places for local restauranteurs, hoteliers, and others in the travel business.  If you are aware of what is going on in Italy now, you will understand that the economy is depressed, owing largely to various difficulties it has and is facing as it tries to integrate with the EU, and as it attempts to compete in a global economy.  So, having  information for travelers can not be the sine qua non of "link spam".  If you look at all the external links listed in the Umbria section of Wikipedia, a number of them are active promoters of travel to the Region.  Even here in the Sardegna section there is a link to a site called ActivSardegna which promotes travel. Should all of these be removed?  And if so, by whom and under what (hopefully) reasonably well-defined policy?
You can coin or use phrases like "link spam", and "cyber vandalism", or other terms of denigration, but I think you, and others who "worry" about Wikipedia, should be careful not to sit on Wikipedia with a holier than thou attitude, deleting other people's contributions, unless a more thorough investigation is done into the content, and sometimes into the motives and objectives of their creators.  Many people spend a lot of time, money and energy trying to do good without much reward beyond the satisfactions it provides.  This effort to "do good" is manifest on your site Bill, at least, so far as I can see, and I commend you for it.  
I'm a bit more than a little chagrined about what you have done Bill, and about how you have characterized ItalianVisits, but I hope we can discuss this if you think I am making an untenable argument in favour of allowing us to post links to the IV website, without fear of having them removed by the over-zealous.
Regards
Vian Andrews
Vancouver, BC
July 28, 2005 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvian (talk • contribs) 20:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's a dead link now, so he was right to remove it. Matuko 03:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Rebuttal to Bill Thayer

message: Language is tricky! "To spend a penny", in British English, means to urinate . . . not quite what the writer had in mind. More technically to the point, the penny still exists in most English-speaking countries: I replaced it by farthing, which is as dead as the franc in Sardinia. Bill 13:36, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the phrase spending a penny, came from using public toilets as you had to use a penny to close the door in the public toilet, hence spending a penny  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.245.189.199 (talk) 16:47, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: "unu francu" and spending a penny....

message: The Veneto entry says:
Veneto is one of the two Italian Regions whose inhabitants are granted the status of «popolo» (i.e. people) with Constitutional Law by the Italian Parliament, the other Region being Sardinia. However only Sardinia has been added the status of "autonomous".
This Sardinia entry says:
Sardinia is one of two Italian regions whose inhabitants have been recognised as a "popolo" (i.e. a distinct people) by the Italian Parliament. The other region is Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
I know nothing of Italian Constitutional law, but these seem to contradict each other. Maybe the Sardinia reference should be to the other autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and to the popolo region of Venezia?
80.105.81.230 21:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The popolo reference is wrong? 

message: According to the Italian Constitutional law - Titolo V, Regioni Province e Comuni, art.#116, the following regions are autonomous: Sardegna, Sicilia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Valle d'Aosta. Yes, the island of Sardinia is one of the regions whose inhabitants have been recognised as a "popolo", geographically, ehnically, politically e historically speaking. This fact is above all due to their isolation. It is also genetically proved, the Sards do not belong to the Italian race. About the Friulan folks is the same. Unfortunately Veneto is still waiting by the Italian Parliament the privileges of its status. So we cannot call them a "popolo". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.59.31.17 (talk) 10:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Costituzione Italiana 

message: The Francu is the ancient coin of Sardinia. This isn't the sardinian translation of Euro.
The definition of "autonomous region" in italian constitution referres to some special powers of those regions in making laws and in making new taxes.
The definition of "popolo" referes to the cultural differences between italy and sardinia and veneto.
Bobbore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.221.128.244 (talk) 18:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some answers 

message: Dear Bobbore the Francu is never existed as a coin. It was the "Franco" or "Franchi e centesimi". Also, we must not make confusion between "popolo" given by regionalists (i.e. Sardists and Venetian Leghisti) and "popolo" given by the fathers of the Italian Costituzione. They are two different concepts. In addition Autonomous Region means that some Regions have administrative autonomy, financial autonomy, statutory autonomy, organizational autonomy, normative autonomy. See the Art. #118 Costituzione, replaced from the constitutional law #3 of the year 2001, and the art. #138 of the Costituzione Italiana, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.6.92.227 (talk) 17:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two different concepts 

message: To kirk11, thanks for the message on my talk page.  It is true that I have been on something of a mission to rid Wikipedia of those links which are clearly spam/commercial, but also of those which are broken, which are out of date, which add little or nothing, or which are otherwise not suitable for inclusion given Wikipedia's policies.  Like all aspects of life, there are people who simply want to take advantage.  I am not for a moment saying that is what you are doing, but I think you will agree that in many cases that is what is happening.
With regards to the two specific links that you mention, in my opinion the www.sarnow.com one is borderline and, for me at least, falling the wrong side of that border.  I do not believe that it is a definitive site, even if it does have some useful pieces of information in a tourism context (but not an encyclopedia context).  That said, I do not feel particularly strongly about it.  However the Going to Sardinia site is clearly commercial with extensive advertising and links for online booking.  For me, this site is not remotely close to being appropriate for inclusion.
What are your thoughts?  Anyone else?
--Bcnviajero 11:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and removed both. The poster should make a compelling argrument for their reinsertion before doing reverting. Wikipedia is not a collection of Links Seaphoto 19:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Dear unknown (if you want to criticize someone, it's better to say who you are), i know italian costituzione very well, and the definition of popolo is not in the costituzione, but in the costitutinal law called Statuto Sardo, approved by italian parlament in 26 february 1948.
I have to teach you that leghisti are only the people who votes for Lega Nord, a partito of north italy.
In Sardinia are present some indipendentist parties, which are very different to regionalist party: probably you are talking about indipendentist, not regionalists.
About Francu, there is a misunderstanding: the francu is the name of an ancient coin now called Lira: 1000 lire=1000 francoso (plural of francu).
Lira is not euro, and no one in sardinia calls euro "francu"
Francu is not euro, but lira.
I said that autonomistic regions have the power of creating laws and new taxes, but the problem is that every single automistic region has different powers.
What you say, that autonomistic regions have "administrative autonomy, financial autonomy, statutory autonomy, organizational autonomy, normative autonomy" is a complicate way to say the same things i said.
Bobbore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.220.189.115 (talk) 18:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer to the unknown 

message: If we speak about powers, we are obliged to explain. When we write: "the power of creating law and new taxes" we claim that the Region has limited powers. Organisational autonomy, for example, has very few to do with fees and laws. In addition, when we say "a people" we must be clear too. The concept of people, meaning a people "whose rights are juridically recognised" can be found among the constitutional concepts of our fathers, not inside statutes as the one mentioned above. You say "I teach you", but if you had studied jurisprudence or juridical science at the University you would know what I was trying to say. The concept of people given by the Italian Constitution is complete, absolutely different and more important than the concept given by any local statute. And no Sardinian statute speaks about the Sardinians as a people having their own sovereign rights. In conclusion, about the meaning of people, we have two basilar concepts, one given by regionalists (or if you do prefer, by political currents driven by localists, campanilists, nationalists, patriottists etc. I think you know what I mean!) and the other one given by the same Italian Constitution, which is fundamental and prevails. About the "franco", it was the French coin that circulated in some countries of Italy before the period of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Sards and Piedmontese adopted it ever since the 1800s. Therefore the Sardinian term "francus" comes from "franco", an Italian term utilized to mean 1 French coin; while the Lira came much later. Only the old Sardinians continued mistakenly to identify the Lira as "francu/s/sus" and until January 1th 2002, when the euro officially replaced it. In origin the Franco and the Lira were two different coins.  
--Jackie 2006 (UTC) — Preceding undated comment added 16:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disagree... 

message: Dear Jackie, I take a degree in jurisprudence last year and I born and live in Alghero in Sardinia. I hear and use the word Francu until I was born, and francu is Lira. The historical origin of this word is not important: here in sardinia, no one use the word francu referring to Euro, as the article say. It's used for Lira. And stop. 
The word Popolo is used in Statuto Sardo (it's a costitutional law) in art. 15 and art. 28. This word is used also in Veneto statuto, and isn't used in the statuti of the others regions.
So the italian parlament reconnise the condition of popolo only at this two regions.
And stop.
Bobbore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.221.144.175 (talk) 17:17, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non mi trovo d' accordo neanche io 

message: Dear Bobbore, I never wrote that the Sardinians use the term francu to mean the euro. In addition we cannot ignore the political history of Sardinia and you should study the coins of the Italian regions before saying that. In Sardinia we have the "franco", then the "lira." About the second one, as I stated, it was mistakenly called "francu/s/sus" by Sardinians and until four years ago. Again, I do repeat. The Italian Parliament does not consider the Sardinians as a people having sovereign rights. In no statute you will find that. Also, the statute is recognised by the same fathers of the Italian Constitution of 1948 but it is not a constitutional law! Statute and costitutional law are two different things! You are doing confusion here. 
--Jackie 2006 (UTC) — Preceding undated comment added 10:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMHO you don't understand my writing 

message: There seems to be some vandalism on this page including at the top, which refers to the US as a "gay county".  Also, there is some profanity in the caption under the map.  Just thought I'd let someone know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.255.208.2 (talk) 16:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: I'm new to this, so forgive the formatting.  But shouldn't the Trivia section (at least) mention Sardinia's reputation for longevity?  There have been multiple scientific studies done on the island seeking to understand why the men there frequently live to be so old.  It seems to me that this sort of reputation warrants inclusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FelixRex (talk • contribs) 14:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: TRIVIA ADDITION

message: Aren't the heads on the flag facing the wrong way? Some on google are in the oposite direction, as well as the one on the badge of Cagliari Calcio. - Soprani 10:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Heads facing wrong way

message: Should there be some mention of Franco Columbu?  He is a former champion bodybuilder, powerlifter, and amateur boxer from Sardinia, now a long-time resident and probably citizen of the United States.  67.71.141.44 (talk) 16:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franco Columbu 

message: I read the "Island of the ancients", a book which discusses the unnatural life expectancy of the some of it's inhabitants, allegedly having the largest percentage of people who live to be >100. It's definitely noteworthy, someone want to research and add it in?
Cleverdan204 (talk) 09:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sardinian life expectancy 

message: Why did anyone modify this article? Why so many images were erased? Why do anyone write wrong things about history (for example about the number of provinces) and erase any of the most important events of sardinian history?
I think that who modified the history's article had copied a text from other site or document, i think there is a violation of copyrights! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daygum~enwiki (talk • contribs) 14:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I re-built the whole article because it was lacking a lot of importants parts and written in a terrible grammar. It was probably written translating from Italian with an automatic translator. If there is a problem with the section "history" please don't cancel all the article but just say it or edit only the history section and maybe it will be the case to do it using an user profile, not standing anonymous to destroy all my work that comprends a lot of sections and new contributions (provinces, historical population, economy etc.).
--Conte di Cavour (talk) 21:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer to the anonymous vandal 

message: "the splendid Carthaginian or Punic civilization flourished alongside the fascinating local Nuragic culture"
This sort of value-judgment-laden language is not suitable for an encyclopedia. The same goes for: "Sardinia is one of the most ancient lands in Europe" -- it sounds both silly and meaningless. It sounds like an advertisement.Jakob37 (talk) 08:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  inappropriate tone for an encyclopedia 

message: The 'Economy' section states that "There is little fishing (and no real maritime tradition)". A few lines later, it claims that "Fishing along the coasts is also an important activity on the island." Would anybody have a source that could be used to resolve this apparent contradiction?
Achimt (talk) 13:22, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  economy: are fisheries important or not? 

message: where to put this link Vacanze Sardegna 
--151.83.64.213 (talk) 14:41, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Alghero tourist information website can be found here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.118.255.95 (talk) 15:43, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  holidays links: 

message: All 8,000 Nuraghes located all over the island are considered  World Heritage Sites by Unesco, not only Su Nuraxi of Barumini, which is only considered the most significant nuraghe Daygum (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:03, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: World Heritage Sites

message: i read: "The name Sardinia is based on a reconstructed term *sardinus/*sardina "little Sard"." where are the refrences??? 
acoording the archeologists and researchers the name sardinia comes from the Shardana people, and in the so called "stele di Nora" (VIII / IX century B.C.) is found the name "b-šrdn" that means Sardinia 
The Stele of Nora is considered by many the most ancient written document in western history. It is a stele obtained from a stone block that goes back to approximately the 8th century BC. It was found in a dry wall near a church of Pula to the west of Cagliari. Pula represents the modern city center that originates from the ancient city of Nora, one of the first Phoenician colonies in Sardinia, or perhaps already a Sardinian-Phoenician city. Visible in the Archaeological National Museum of Cagliari, the stele reveals to us the first Phoenician writing ever traced to the West of Tyre. The inscription has b-Trshs, that is " in-Tartessos" (in Spain? or Tarshish in the Levant?) and b-Shrdn, that is " in-Sardinia" or a reference to a people, the Shardana, that probably populated Sardinia in the Bronze Age and who made up part of the coalition of the People of the Sea (who attacked Egypt under pharaohs Merneptah and Ramses III).
Daygum (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Toponymy

message: If theres approx 300 days of sunshine on Sardinia .Has the goverment or private eneterprise ever houh of a solar enery (panals ec) plan on Saredinia?razi!ROMAANDRES (talk) 16:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sardinia has 300 days of sunshine?! A good solar energy spot? 

message: I think we might have a mild pov problem in the section about medieval history. The House of Arborea is presented as the good guys throughout and the tone stays from neutral, in my opinion. What do you think? Bazuz (talk) 16:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This may have been the case in October 2011, but in the January 2013 version there is an opposite problem - the whole section reads like a promotional sales pitch for the House of Aragon and the Papacy, with very strong propagandish POV for the Aragonese actions.TheCormac (talk) 21:23, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  mild pov in Middle Ages section? 

message: There is a discussion at Talk:Sicily#Lead section that applies here as well. No need to duplicate. --Bejnar (talk) 20:10, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead section

message: The Modern history section states that Sardinia became Spanish in 1479 but then says it "remained Spanish from 1323-1720". There are no references for this section. What actually happened? 70.167.17.57 (talk) 22:59, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern History Discrepancy

message: I cannot get the relationsheep between the "installation of military bases" and the increase of crime rate. Please clarify that point or remove suc a passagee. Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.92.153.12 (talk) 15:05, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  installation of militar bases 

message: Couldn't help but notice there's no history on Sardinia in WW2. Could we make an effort to include this? I'm not familiar w/ the topic though (hence why I came here looking for it). Please advise. Thanks! Azx2 21:33, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWII History? 

message: Well, actually, it is a quite large gallery, but, what does it mean "unsourced"? All Sardinians can recognise almost all of those symbols as appropriate of their own land. The "official" symbols are only the flag and the coat of arms, and very few of theese symbols are peculiar of "small regions". Yes, of course, the Giara horses lives only in the Giara, but they are property of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and of the the entire sardinian people. I agree that it is a very large gallery, but they are the quintessence of a little and remote island in the mediterranean sea and of its people. We are "islanders", don't forget!! Our world is little and confined. But it is our world, all the island.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.13.16.218 (talk) 11:57, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery symbols of Sardinia 

message: Hi everyone, just willing to pointing out something which I don't know if it's kind of a weird bug or not. The name of the island in Italian on the infobox is in Italic, unlike the others. Is there a way to "fix" this little aesthetic issue?--Dk1919 (talk) 11:53, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the island in Italian being in Italic 

message: I read: 
-"In Sardinia there are more than 100 beaches".... SOURCES??? Sardinia has surely more than 1 thousand beaches, not just more than 100. If we consider only the small isle of Asinara, the beaches are about 20.
-"The northern east coast (near Olbia) has a lot of large sandy beaches".....WRONG,  the north east coast of Sardinia is charachterized by tiny bay beaches, the largest ones are on the western sector of the island.
That section is senseless and wrote by a person who doesn't know much about the geography of the island.
I propose to delete that chapter or modify those wrong infos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.10.225.153 (talk) 22:08, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The source is in that section of the article  and claims exactly what is currently written. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 22:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

text: That's the source that's there; if you can find a better one, add it. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 22:02, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beaches 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion 

message: The naming sections says "The name Sardinia has Latin roots. It comes from the pre-Roman ethnonym *s(a)rd- ... It makes its first appearance on the Nora Stone, where the word Šrdn testifies to the name's existence when the Phoenician merchants first arrived." So it's actually a pre-Roman root translated through Latin, not a latin root word.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:9880:4237:FFC5:CD68:9517:7CF7:ACF7 (talk) 19:17, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin roots of name? 

message: Right now the long list of various names for Sardinia detracts from the summary purpose of the lead.  I know it is a common practice to list one or two synonyms in the lead sentence, but in this case would it not be reasonable to move them all to a section on "Names" or "Toponyms"?  --Bejnar (talk) 22:43, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Names in Lead

message: There is not a single word in this presumably "accurate" article on the Aghlabid conquest of Sardinia!!  It is amazing that there is a tiny mention of their conquest of Sicily and Bari!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7000:9900:10E:C889:DE91:F79A:B319 (talk) 17:53, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a source for that that is reliable per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources, go ahead and add it to the article. However, keep in mind that you may need to defend your addition. The WP article on the Aghlabids makes it seem unlikely that they made a "conquest" of Sardiana. The Muslim Heritage  article on the Aghlabids barely mentions Sardinia at all. https://muslimheritage.com/the-aghlabids-of-tunisia/ Dgndenver (talk) 08:41, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: No mention of Islamic conquest at all

message: Sardex has a good portion of economic activity. With no mention on wiki. 2601:199:680:12A0:A8D9:F3D1:3060:1F1E (talk) 17:26, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sardex complimentary currency 

message: Is the 'Sea of Sardinia' an actual geographical toponym? International Hydrographic Organization makes no mention of it. I can only find one source in English that uses it (refers to it as 'Sardinian Sea') and only a handful of Italian sources. It seems the majority of these (even the English one) simply refer to it as the Mediterranean or the Western Mediterranean.
English Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Study-area-in-the-Sardinian-Sea-Capo-Caccia-Isola-Piana-Marine-Protected-Area-Western_fig1_325745638
Italian: Searches for Mar di Sardegna or Mare Sardu will only give a few legitimate results. I wonder how many of these are simply referring to 'the seas/sea surrounding Sardinia'.
Thank you - Oscopo (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Sea of Sardinia