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Sardinia: Northwestern Europe
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[M]ost theories regarding the original population of Sardinia were formulated prior to genetics research and in the traditional framework of east-west movements. Genetic studies show that the population of Sardinia is genetically quite distant from their neighbors. This is partially due to genetic drift due to isolation, though other reasons, such as ties with pre-Indo-European Neolithic peoples may ... have contributed to this distance.
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Sardinia is becoming recognized for outdoor adventure travel, not really known for art galleries and museums like the rest of Italy. Sardinia can be considered an outdoor adventurers' paradise, but can be overwhelming with very hot, dry climate in the long days of summer and powerful winds in the winter. If you want an extreme European holiday consider Sardinia. Of course, Sardinia is not all extreme sports, you can take part in a less adventurous outdoor activities like a long walk on one of the many beaches of Sardinia or spend an afternoon playing a game of golf.
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The Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica retained its separate character as part of the Crown of Aragon and was not merely incorporated into the Kingdom of Aragon. At the time of his struggles with Arborea, Peter IV of Aragon granted an autonomous legislature to the Kingdom, which had one of Europe's most advanced legal traditions. The Kingdom was governed in the king's name by a viceroy.
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A little under 120 miles from the Italian mainland, slightly more than that from the North African coast at Tunisia, Sardinia is way off most tourist itineraries of Italy; D.H. Lawrence found it exotically different when he passed through here in 1921 - "lost", as he put it, "between Europe and Africa and belonging to nowhere."
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There is virtually no evidence in Sardinia of external contacts in the late third and early second millennia apart from late Beakers and the remarkably close parallels, perhaps fortuitous, between Bonnannaro pottery and that of the North Italian Polada culture. By the fifteenth century, international trade was again in full swing and by about 1400 if not earlier, Sardinia was an integral part of a commercial network that extended from the Near East to Northwestern Europe. The principal eastern component of this network was Cyprus, and it seems that the peak period of the Sardinia-Cyprus nexus was the twelfth century; it is evident that the connection continued to the end of the second millennium or even beyond when it can be considered part of the Phoenician trade. During the high-water period of Cypriot trade, Sardinia was ... in direct and/or indirect contact with the Mycenaean world. It seems at least arguable that indigenous Sardinians, known in the east as Sherden, were carriers of some of the eastern material found on the island.
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Tiscali was founded by 1998 by Renato Soru, an entrepreneur from Sardinia, as a fixed-line telephone operator. The following year Tiscali became an ISP provider and, after listing on the Milan stock exchange, it embarked on an acquisition binge that gave it a presence in 15 European countries and South Africa.
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