Siddi (Sardinia)
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Siddi is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Medio Campidano
Province of Medio Campidano
Medio Campidano is a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy.It was created in 2005 from part of the province of Cagliari. It contains 28 communities, the largest of which by population are :-Politics:...

 in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

, located about 50 km northwest of Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...

 and about 11 km north of Sanluri
Sanluri
Sanluri is the capital town of the province of Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy....

 in the Marmilla
Marmilla
Marmilla is a natural region of southern-central Sardinia, Italy.It is delimited from east and south by the Campidano, from north-west by Monte Arci, from north by the Giara di Gesturi and the Giara di Serri, and from east by the Flumini Mannu....

 historical sub-region.

Siddi borders the following municipalities: Baressa
Baressa
Baressa is a comune in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km northwest of Cagliari and about 35 km southeast of Oristano....

, Collinas
Collinas
Collinas is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km northwest of Cagliari and about 9 km northwest of Sanluri...

, Gonnoscodina
Gonnoscodina
Gonnoscodina is a comune in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km northwest of Cagliari and about 30 km southeast of Oristano....

, Gonnostramatza
Gonnostramatza
Gonnostramatza is a comune in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km northwest of Cagliari and about 30 km southeast of Oristano, in the Marmilla.-External links:*...

, Lunamatrona
Lunamatrona
Lunamatrona is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km northwest of Cagliari and about 9 km north of Sanluri, in the inner Marmilla plain....

, Pauli Arbarei
Pauli Arbarei
Pauli Arbarei is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km northwest of Cagliari and about 11 km north of Sanluri....

, Ussaramanna
Ussaramanna
Ussaramanna is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km northwest of Cagliari and about 15 km north of Sanluri....

. It is home to several archaeological findings, including a domus de janas
Domus de Janas
Domus de Janas are a type of pre-historic chamber tombs found in the Mediterranean area, but typically in Sardinia. They consist of several chambers quarried out by the Ozieri and Beaker cultures, resembling houses in their layout.Built between 3400 and 2700 BC, more than 1000 of the rock-cut...

 from the Ozieri culture
Ozieri culture
The Ozieri culture was a prehistoric pre-Nuragic culture that lived in Sardinia from c. 3200 to 2800 BC. It takes its name from the locality where the main findings connected with it have been found, the grotto of San Michele near Ozieri, in northern Sardinia...

, a Giants' tomb and several nuraghe
Nuraghe
The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture, the Nuragic civilization...

villages.
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