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| Nuoro | |||
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| — Comune — | |||
| Comune di Nuoro | |||
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| Coordinates: 40°19′N 09°20′E / 40.317°N 9.333°ECoordinates: 40°19′N 09°20′E / 40.317°N 9.333°E | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| Region | Sardinia | ||
| Province | Nuoro (NU) | ||
| Frazioni | Lollove | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Mario Demuru Zidda | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 192.27 km2 (74.2 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 554 m (1,818 ft) | ||
| Population (December 31, 2004) | |||
| - Total | 36,672 | ||
| - Density | 190.7/km2 (494/sq mi) | ||
| - Demonym | Nuoresi | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 08100 | ||
| Dialing code | 0784 | ||
| Patron saint | Santa Maria della Neve | ||
| Saint day | August 5 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
Nuoro (Nùgoro[1], in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and comune in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. The capital of the province of Nuoro, it is the administrative center of one Europe's less-densely populated areas. Nearby is the Monte Ortobene.
Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town.[1] It is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.
The area of the Province of Nuoro is known for its concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians, including Antonio Todde, the world's oldest living man from March 5, 2001 to January 3, 2002.
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History
The earliest traces of human settlements in the Nuoro area, the so-called Domus de janas, date back to the 3rd millennium BC. Fragments of Ozieri culture ceramics have been dated to c. 3500 BC. The province of Nuoro was a center of the Nuraghe civilization from 1500 BC, including more than 30 nuraghe sites, such has that at Tanca Manna with about 800 huts. The area, lying on the road from Karalis (Cagliari) to Ulbia (Olbia) was also colonized by the Romans.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Sardinia was held by the Vandals and then by the Byzantines. According to the letters of Pope Gregory I, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (that of the provinciales) with, in the interior, Pagan cultures (Gens Barbaricina). As the Byzantine control waned, the Guidicati appeared. A small village known as Nugor appears on a medieval map from 1147. In the two following centuries it grew to more than 1000 inhabitants. Nuoro remained a town of average importance under the Aragonese and Spanish domination of Sardinia, until famine and plague struck it in the late 17th century. After the annexion to the Piedmont in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the town became the administrative center of the area, obtaining the title of city in 1836; in the 19th century it was one of the main cultural centers of Sardinia.
Transportation
The town is connected to Sassari and Cagliari by the SS 131, and to Oblia by the 131 DCN State Road. It has a station on the Ferrovie della Sardegna railroad to the Marghine area and Macomer.
Public transport in the city is held by ATP Nuoro.
Notable people
- Grazia Deledda, writer
- Salvatore Satta, scholar of Jurisprudence
- Giovanni Pintori, graphic artist
- Maria Giacobbe, writer and essayist (in Italian and in Danish)
- Franco Oppo, composer
- Costantino Nivola, (from Orani), sculptor
- Gianfranco Zola, (from Oliena), soccer player
References
- ^ Which probably means "home"; "Pitzinnu de Nugoro eris" ("The child of Nuoro yesterday") edited by Tina Falchi Marras and the students of the second grade of the middle school N. 3 of Nuoro, printed on March 27, 1980 by Tipolito Arti Grafiche AR.P.E.F. of Armando Paola, Nuoro. pag. 179: "NUGORO da una rad. nugor -- fuoco dimora" ("NUGORO from a root nugor -- home fireplace")
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