Arborea is a town and ''
comune
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'' in the
province of Oristano
The province of Oristano ( it, provincia di Oristano, sc, provìntzia de Aristanis) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Oristano. It has an area of , a total population of 160,746 (2016), ...
,
Sardinia
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,
Italy
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, whose economy is largely based on agriculture and cattle breeding with production of vegetables, rice, fruit and milk (notably the local milk product Arborea).
History
Arborea was built by the fascist government of Italy in the 1920s, after the draining of the marshes which covered the area. The village was populated by families, mostly composed of
peasants
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, who came from the regions of
Veneto
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and
Friuli
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in
north-eastern Italy.
Name
Arborea is named for and lies within the medieval
Giudicato of Arborea, which had its capital, at various periods, in nearby
Tharros
Tharros (also spelled Tharras, Archaic Greek: , Hellenistic Greek, Tarras or Tarrae, Τάρραι) was an ancient city and former bishopric on the west coast of Sardinia, Italy.
It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see and an archaeologica ...
and
Oristano
Oristano (; sc, Aristanis ) is an Italian city and ''comune'', and capital of the Province of Oristano in the central-western part of the island of Sardinia. It is located on the northern part of the Campidano plain. It was established as the pr ...
. The town was originally named ''Villaggio Mussolini'' (with which it was inaugurated on October 29, 1928), by the fascist government in honor of the Italian fascist dictator
Benito Mussolini. Less than two years later, the name was revised to ''Mussolinia di Sardegna'' ("''Mussolinia of Sardinia''", to distinguish the town from ''Mussolinia di Sicilia'', now
Santo Pietro in the commune of
Caltagirone,
Province of Catania).
[voce "Arborea" ''da'' F.C. Casula, ''Dizionario Storico Sardo'', Carlo Delfino Editore, 2001, Sassari] The current name was adopted after
World War II
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.
Twin towns
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Mortegliano,
Italy
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Sermoneta,
Italy
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Zevio,
Italy
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Villorba,
Italy
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References
External links
History of Arborea and Mussolinia
Planned cities
Italian fascist architecture
Populated places established in 1928
Planned cities in Italy
1930 establishments in Italy
States and territories established in 1930
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