Thursday, August 27, 2009

Timeline: Sardinia's History in a Nutshell

Here is a brief timeline of the history, of Sardinia:

1,800-238 BC Nuraghic civilization

1,000-500 BC Phoenician colonies

500-238 BC Carthaginian colonies

238 BC-456 AD Roman occupation

456-534 AD Vandal raids

534-710 AD Byzantine rule

710-1354 Sardinian self-rule

1354-1720 Catalan (Spanish) rule

1720 Sardinia passes to Piedmont's Savoy Kingdom

1814 The Kingdom of Sardinia united with the Kingdom of Liguria

1861 Victor Emmanuel II , the first King of Italy.

Map Copyleft at Wikipedia.