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The vanished peace and the beginning of the decadency

In 1391, the war against the Aragoneses burst again by the same Brancaleone, yearning for redemption. “Villa di Chiesa” ( Villa of Church in Iglesias) and Sanluri had been reconquered, but the Aragoneses (...)

The educated Mariano IV, “Giudice” brought up in the court of Aragona

The 1323's Aragonese arrival in Sardinia was arranged the year before in Avignon, by the Aragonese king Giacomo II “il Giusto” (the Just) and the Giudice (Judge) of Arborea Ugone. (...)

The myth of Eleonora and the importance of the Carta de Logu

Ugone III was a great leader, but his authoritarian character and his serious depressive syndrome (no doctor manage to cure it) made him fall out with the nobles of Arborea, that killed him and his daughter Benedetta (...)

The capital of the flourishing “Giudicato di Arborea”

Oristano, after Tharros decadency, became the capital of the “Giudicato di Arborea” (district of Arborea), thanks to its enviable geographic position and to the extension of its inhabited center.(...)

There is still uncertainty on the origins of Oristano

The origin of Oristano is still unclear. The first written references go back to VII century AD and has been attributed to the geographer Giorgio Ciprio. It is cleat that after the destruction of Tharros,(...)