Magomadas

Magomadas Magumadas
Comune
Comune di Magomadas
Location of Magomadas
40°16′N 8°31′E / 40.267°N 8.517°E / 40.267; 8.517
Country	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Province	Oristano (OR)
Government
• Mayor	Paolo Puddu
Area [1]
• Total	9.02 km2 (3.48 sq mi)
Elevation	263 m (863 ft)
Population  (28 February 2017)[2]
• Total	667
• Density	74/km2 (190/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Magomadesi, Magumadesos
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	09090
Dialing code	0785
Website	Official website

Magomadas (Sardinian: Magumadas) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Cagliari and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Oristano.

Geography

Magomadas borders the following municipalities: Bosa, Flussio, Modolo, Tresnuraghes.

History

The village was presumably founded by Phoenicians. The name Macomades is born by many ancient settlements around the coast of the western Mediterranean Sea. In Hebrew, of all contemporary semitic languages the most closely related to ancient Phoenician, maqom ħadaš means "new place".

References

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