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Sardinia

[ sahr-din-ee-uh, -din-yuh ]

noun

  1. a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9,301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
  2. a former kingdom 1720–1860, including this island and Savoy, Piedmont, and Genoa (after 1815) in NW Italy: ruled by the House of Savoy. : Turin.


Sardinia

/ sɑːˈdɪnɪə /

noun

  1. the second-largest island in the Mediterranean: forms, with offshore islands, an administrative region of Italy; ceded to Savoy by Austria in 1720 in exchange for Sicily and formed the Kingdom of Sardinia with Piedmont; became part of Italy in 1861. Capital: Cagliari. Pop: 1 637 639 (2003 est). Area: 24 089 sq km (9301 sq miles) Italian nameSardegna


Sardinia

  1. Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea west of the mainland of Italy .


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Notes

The kingdom of Sardinia, which was founded in the early eighteenth century, became the nucleus of united Italy during the nineteenth century.

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Example Sentences

The horns match imagery found in rock art in southern Spain and the nearby island of Sardinia from around the same time, as well as bronze figurines in Scandinavia.

Don’t ignore Sardinia, where grenache goes by the alias cannonau and achieves a brambly rustic flavor evoking the Mediterranean.

The expedition resumed in April 2021 and will cross the tip of Italy, explore Sicily, and end in Sardinia in September.

Positive cases were isolated more quickly, preventing the outbreak in Sardinia from spreading to other regions.

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The miner crisis is the latest in a series of austerity-driven protests across the island of Sardinia.

Closures of schools, hospitals, and mines and factories like the ones in Sardinia are the direct results of the austerity cuts.

By the time Putin joined Berlusconi on his n-th trip to Sardinia, in 2003, they were already on hugging terms.

German forces were built up in Greece and Sardinia, which proved disastrous for the Nazis.

This summer the 72-year-old media mogul is only spending a handful of days in Sardinia.

Charles Albert, ex-king of Sardinia, died on his arrival at Portugal, soon after his abdication.

Then came a running fight off Sardinia, in which the Pisans had the worse of it, losing eight galleys and fifteen hundred men.

Lookout ships were stationed off the north end of Corsica and west of Sardinia.

The King of Sardinia openly announced his intention to take the field against Austria, should war break out.

The States of the King of Sardinia are poor, and their commerce is very small.

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