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Nora, Italy
38.9847° N, 9.0159° E
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Nora (Ancient Greek: Νῶρα) (Nuras in the mediaeval Sardinian language) is an ancient pre-Roman and Roman town on a peninsula near Pula, near to Cagliari in Sardinia.
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Vandal conquest and decline
mid-5th century AD
Nora Stone palaeographic date
late 9th–early 8th century BCE
Roman conquest of Sardinia
238 BC
Eastern Roman reconquest
535
Arab conquest of Carthage
698
Abandonment of Nora
8th century
Nora Stone discovery
1773
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