Editing Nuoro (section)

== History ==
[[File:M. Ortobene - vista di Nuoro.jpg|thumb|left|250px|View of Nuoro in winter from [[Ortobene|Monte Ortobene]].]]
[[File:Nuoro - Seuna.jpg|thumb|left|250px|View of Nuoro]]
The earliest traces of human settlement in the Nuoro area (called " the Nuorese") are the so-called [[Domus de janas]], rock-cut tombs dated at the third millennium BC. However, fragments of ceramics of the [[Ozieri culture]] have also been discovered and dated at c. 3500 BC.<ref>''Sardinia'' {{ISBN|1-860-11324-9}} p. 85</ref>

The Nuorese was a centre of the [[Nuraghe|Nuragic civilization]] (which developed in Sardinia from c. 1500 BC to c. 250 BC), as attested by more than 30 Nuragic sites, such has the village discovered in the countryside of Tanca Manna, just outside Nuoro, which was made of about 800 huts.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

The Nuorese was crossed by a Roman road which connected Karalis ([[Cagliari]]) to Ulbia ([[Olbia]]). The legacy of the Roman colonization can especially be found in the variety of the [[Sardinian language]] which is still spoken today in Nuoro: [[Logudorese dialect|Nuorese Sardinian]] is considered the most [[conservative (language)|conservative]] [[dialect]] of Sardinian, which is in turn the most conservative [[Romance languages|Romance language]].{{cn|date=September 2024}}

After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]], Sardinia was held first by the [[Vandals]] and then by the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]]. According to the letters of [[Pope Gregory I]], a Romanized and Christianized culture (that of the ''provinciales'') co-existed with several Pagan cultures (those of the ''Gens Barbaricina'', i.e. "Barbarian People") mainly located in the island's interior.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cities Nuoro |url=https://www.superciaotour.com/cities/nuoro/ |access-date=19 December 2024 |website=Superciao Tour |language=en-AU}}</ref> As the Byzantine control waned, the [[Sardinian medieval kingdoms|Judicates]] appeared. A small village known as '''''Nugor''''' appears on a medieval map from 1147. In the two following centuries it grew to more than 1000 inhabitants.{{cn|date=September 2024}} Nuoro remained a town of average importance under the Aragonese and Spanish domination of Sardinia, until famine and plague struck it in the late 17th century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArtSites |title=Holidays in Sardinia - Nuoro {{!}} Tritt-Sardinia.com |url=https://www.tritt-sardinia.com/accommodations-italy/sardinia/nuoro |access-date=19 December 2024 |website=Tritt - Case in Sardegna |language=EN}}</ref>

After the annexation to the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]], the town became the administrative center of the area, obtaining the title of city in 1836.{{cn|date=September 2024}}