Italy

Nora, Italy

Phoenician and Roman town on a Sardinian peninsula

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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.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
Contemporary Period
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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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Country

Italy

Coordinates

38.98° N, 9.02° E