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2 unusual facts about Sardinian


Pierrick Lilliu

Pierrick Lilliu, born 13 July 1986, is a French rock-singer living in Brittany and was born in Mulhouse, Alsace from a Sardinian father.

Turkish Crimea Medal

Additionally, the inscription in the exergue reads Crimea 1855’ for British issue, ‘La Crimee 1855’ for French issue,' and 'La Crimea 1855 for Sardinian issue.


Antonio Pigliaru

He was elected to the regional Committee of the Sardinian section of the Italian Libraries Association (AIB) for 1955–1958 and again 1958–1961.

Banda della Magliana

In 1997, Italian prosecutors in Rome implicated a member of the Sicilian Mafia, Giuseppe Calò, in Calvi's murder, along with Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian businessman with wide ranging interests.

Barbary stag

Recent genetic studies indicate that the North African red deer population is practically indistinguishable from the Sardinian and Corsican populations, generally referred to as the Corsican red deer.

Battle of Mondovì

The next morning, Sérurier's advance struck the Sardinian rearguard on the heights of Buon Gesù drove it back on the town of Vicoforte.

Battle of Saorgio

On 28 February 1793, 12,000 French troops under Lieutenant General Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duke of Biron battled with 7,000 Sardinian soldiers under the Count of Saint-André at Levens.

Casu marzu

The cheese, along with one of its Sardinian makers, Giovanni Gabbas, received attention on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

Corsican red deer

Corsican Red Deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus Erxleben, 1777), also known simply as Corsican or Sardinian Deer, is a subspecies of the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Italy and Corsica, France.

Gerolamo Araolla

Araolla was an important poet, authoring verses in Italian, Sardinian and Spanish, the three dominate languages in Sardinia in the period.

Giovanni Visconti

John of Gallura (died 1275), or Giovanni Visconti, Judge of Gallura, Sardinian ruler

Giudicato of Gallura

In 1211, Comita III of Torres confirmed a treaty with the Republic of Genoa, Pisa's traditional rival for Sardinian influence, whereby the two powers — Logudoro and Genoa — would jointly conquer the entire island and put it under Genoese suzerainty with Comita as judge.

Giuseppe Biasi

He contributed to the most important Italian magazines of the period, including L’illustrazione italiana, Avanti della Domenica and Il Giornalino della Domenica, and finally established himself as the illustrator of Grazia Deledda, with whom he shared a determination to assert the specific values of Sardinian culture in post-unification Italy.

Grazia Deledda

Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi, Renato Serra, and later until today by Sardinian writers such as Sergio Atzeni, Giulio Angioni, Salvatore Mannuzzu, starters of the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring.

HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia

At the Sardinian end, the new converter station was built next to the existing station but at the mainland end a new converter station was built at Suvereto.

La Settimana Enigmistica

La Settimana Enigmistica was created by a Sardinian nobleman, Giorgio Sisini, count of Sant'Andrea and the son of the founder of the Rotary Club of Sardinia.

Luigi Lai

In 1977 he collaborated with Angelo Branduardi playing the typical Sardinian instrument on the album la pulce d'acqua.

Marquess of Saint Philip

Marquess of Saint Philip, also spelled as Marquis of Saint Philip or St. Philip (in Spanish: Marqués de San Felipe; in Italian: Marchese di San Filippo) is a title granted in 1709 by Philip V, king of Spain and, at that time, claimant king of Sardinia, to the Sardinian nobleman and politician Vicente Bacallar.

Menetries's Warbler

It is similar to female Sardinian and Subalpine Warblers but has plainer tertial feathers and more contrast between the pale back and dark tail.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Their next film Padre padrone (1977) (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), taken from a novel by Gavino Ledda, speaks of the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the cruel rules of his patriarchal society.

Pietro Giannone

But he was induced to visit a Catholic village within Sardinian territory, in order to hear mass on Easter day.

Sergio Atzeni

Sergio Atzeni is considered, with Giulio Angioni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, one of the initiators of the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena, which followed the work of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta.

Vincent Novello

Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish (in Manchester Square) and Portuguese (in South Street, Grosvenor Square) chapels, and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary's chapel, Moorfields.


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