Magomadas | |
Official Name: | Comune di Magomadas |
Native Name: | Magumadas |
Pushpin Map: | Italy Sardinia |
Coordinates: | 40.2667°N 39°W |
Region: | Sardinia |
Province: | Oristano (OR) |
Mayor: | Paolo Puddu |
Area Total Km2: | 9.02 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 667 |
Population As Of: | 28 February 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Magomadesi, Magumadesos |
Elevation M: | 263 |
Postal Code: | 09090 |
Area Code: | 0785 |
Magomadas (Sardinian: Magumadas) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 130km (80miles) northwest of Cagliari and about 40km (30miles) north of Oristano.
Magomadas borders the following municipalities: Bosa, Flussio, Modolo, Tresnuraghes.
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".