Judicate Of Agugliastra
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Agugliastra or Ogliastra was an administrative subdivision of
Pisan Pisa ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning To ...
and Aragonese
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
.


History

The territory of Ogliastra, part of the
Judicate of Cagliari The Judicate of Cagliari (, ) was one of the four kingdoms or judicates (''iudicati'', literally "judgeship") into which Sardinia was divided during the Middle Ages. The Judicate of Cagliari occupied the entire southern portion of the island and ...
as a
curatoria The Judicates (, or in Sardinian, in Latin, or in Italian), in English also referred to as Sardinian Kingdoms, Sardinian Judgedoms or Judicatures, were independent states that took power in Sardinia in the Middle Ages, between the elevent ...
until 1258 and then of the
Judicate of Gallura The Judicate of Gallura (, , ) was one of four Sardinian judicates in the Middle Ages. These were independent states whose rulers bore the title ''iudex'', judge. Gallura, a name which comes from ''gallus'', meaning rooster (cock), was subdivide ...
(1288) and the
Republic of Pisa The Republic of Pisa () was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian t ...
(1288–1324), constituted until the
Aragonese conquest of Sardinia The Aragonese conquest of Sardinia took place between 1323 and 1326. The island of Sardinia was at the time subject to the influence of the Republic of Pisa, the Pisan della Gherardesca family, Genoa and of the Genoese families of Doria (family) ...
an important area of influence of Pisa which included all the eastern coast of the island. During the Pisan domination and the subsequent Aragonese rule, Ogliastra's territory was often incorrectly named "Judicate of Ogliastra" or ''Ollaste''.


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