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Sardinia is a generally mountainous island with a few coastal plains. The island's mountains are divided into three ranges; the highest peaks are in the middle section of the island. Gennargentu, at 6,016 feet (1,834 m), is the highest point in Sardinia. Sardinia has few major rivers; the largest river on the island is the Tirso, which has a length of 94 miles (151 km) and flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The island has a Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry summers and very mild winters. The climate in the mountains tends to be wetter and cooler than the lower coastal plains; and winter snowfalls are not uncommon in the higher peaks.
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Sardinia is a very ancient land, set on a rock basement which connects it to the island of Corsica. The most ancient rocks, which are metamorphic, date back to the Paleozoic era, (570-225 million years ago). Gennargentu's schistose rocks, granite, made of consolidated melted rock, limestone formations and lignite, of vegetal origin, originated later on. Sardinia and Corsica broke away from the European continent during Oligocene (38-26 million years ago), moving to their present position. Afterwards, volcanic activity originated basalitic flows, as the Campidano plain was filled by alluvial deposits.
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Sardinia ... boasts a fine darting tradition, with many believing that the popular game in fact originated somewhere in the Sassari region of the country towards the end of the 15th century. In those days, the darts themselves were carved from Beech (Fagus) wood and the flights were feathers drawn from the indigenous Pollo Sultano, a bird famed for its spectacular violet-blue plumage. The early 21st century has seen one darter in particular proudly continuing his nation's rich sporting heritage. Brett "The Sardinian" Welch, at 21-years-old, presents the island's greatest hope of one day becoming a world champion. With a current average of 101.4, and weighing in at 280 pounds, he is confident of qualify for next year's BDO World Professional Darts Championship at the Lakeside.
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Thought was populated since prehistory (the first human settlements date back to 6.000 - 5.000 B.C.), Sardinia never elaborated a unitary association form. The trace of the settlement is therefore extremelyfragmentary, as lots of little villages throughout the island witness.Villages, which are expression of a civil-social order, organized in communities and tribal groups of modest entity.The age of the nuragic civilization was a period of independence, but ... of relative isolation from the big cultural movements in the Mediterranean area. The Nuraghe with its peculiar architectural structure is the most representative sign of that past. A typical character of Sardinian archaeology is the disposition of the monuments and architectural works, spread all over the countryside, making up a harmonious whole with the natural environment.
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Perhaps the geographical confusion is accentuated by the number of times Sardinia has been invaded over the past two millennia. The island has certainly been inhabited since prehistoric times. You don't have to dig to find this; the evidence is all over Sardinia in the shape of the bizarre nuraghi, conical stone buildings, rather like beehives. They were mainly constructed between 1500BC and 500BC, apparently as defensive structures as well as homes. the fact that 700 of the nuraghi survive 3000 years later gives an indication of their power.
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The mining industry in Sardinia is confined in the main to the south-western portion of the island. The mines were known to the Carthaginians, as discoveries of lamps, coins, &c. (now in the museum at Cagliari), testify. The Roman workings too, to judge from similar finds, seem to have been considerable. The centre of the mining district (Metalla of the itineraries) was probably about 5 m. south of Fluminimaggiore, in a locality known as Antas, where are the remains of a Roman temple (Corpus Inscr. Lat. x. 7539), dedicated to an emperor, probably Commodus - but the inscription is only in part preserved.
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