Eduardo Blasco Ferrer was a Spanish-Italian linguist and a professor at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia. He is best known as the author of several studies about the Paleo-Sardinian and Sardinian language. He was born in Barcelona and died in Bastia.
Sardinian or Sard is the primary indigenous Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on most of the island of Sardinia. Many Romance linguists consider it the closest genealogical descendant to Latin. However, it also incorporates a Pre-Latin substratum, as well as a Byzantine Greek, Catalan, Spanish and Italian superstratum due to the political membership of the island, which became a Byzantine possession followed by a significant period of self-rule, fell into the Iberian sphere of influence in the late Middle Ages, and eventually into the Italian one in the 18th century.
The Sardinian Action Party is a regionalist and separatist political party in Sardinia. While being traditionally part of the Sardinian centre-left, this nationalist party has recently sided with the centre-right coalition and, more specifically, with the Lega Nord.
Prima Categoria is a level of football in Italy. It is the seventh level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Promozione level. Depending on each league's local rules, a number of teams each year are relegated from each league, to the eighth level of Italian football, the Seconda Categoria.
Achille Costa was an Italian entomologist appointed director of the Zoological Museum of Naples. He founded the entomological collections in Naples and described many new species.
Tullio De Mauro was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician.
Ida Baccini (1850–1911) was an Italian writer for children. Baccini edited Cordelia, a journal for girls, from 1884 to 1911.
Simona Molinari is an Italian jazz music singer. She performed at the Sanremo Music Festival 2009 her song "Egocentrica". Shortly after, she released the album of the same name.
The Banco di Sardegna S.p.A. is a bank headquartered in Sassari, Italy and operating primarily on the island of Sardinia, with offices also in Lombardy, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria and Lazio. The bank is a subsidiary of Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna and previously Fondazione Banco di Sardegna.
The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture was a civilization or culture on the island of Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, which lasted from the 18th century BC to 238 BC when the Romans colonized the island. Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD or possibly even to the 6th century AD.
The Sardinians, or also the Sards, are the native people and ethnic group from which Sardinia, a western Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy, derives its name.
Sardinian nationalism or also Sardism is a social, cultural and political movement in Sardinia calling for national devolution, further autonomy, or even outright independence, from Italy. It also promotes the protection of the island's environment and the preservation of the Sardinian cultural heritage.
Ottorino Pietro Alberti was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop who served as Archbishop of Cagliari from 1987 to 2003.
The Arzachena culture was a late Neolithic pre-Nuragic culture occupying the northeastern part of Sardinia (Gallura) and part of southern Corsica from roughly the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC. It takes its name from the Sardinian town of Arzachena.
The necropolis of Tuvixeddu is a punic necropolis, one of the largest in the Mediterranean, located in a hill inside the city of Cagliari, Sardinia, called Tuvixeddu.
Gianfranco Baldazzi was an Italian lyricist, record producer, author and journalist.
Ornella Ferrari (1909–1983), known by the pen name Biri, was a successful woman Italian song lyricist of the 1940s to 1970s. She achieved recognition with the song "Addormentarmi così" in 1948. Her 1951 entry at San Remo, "La luna si veste d'argento", sung by Achille Togliani and Nilla Pizzi was accused of partial use of an earlier 1907 poem.
The 2016 Rally di Sardegna was the sixth round of the 2016 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 9 June and 12 June 2016, and was based in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Hyundai's Thierry Neuville won the race, his 2nd win in the World Rally Championship.
