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Giudicato di Torres

Giudicato of Torres
Rennu de Torres
10th century–1259


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Giudicato di Torres (light green in the map)
Capital Ardara, Porto Torres, Sassari
Languages Sardinian, Sassarese, Latin
Religion Roman Catholic
Government Giudicato
Giudicato
 •  1060 - 1073 Barisone I of Torres
 •  1218-1233 Marianus II of Torres
 •  1236-1259 Adelasia of Torres
History
 •  Established 10th century
 •  Disestablished 1259
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Byzantine Empire
Sassari
Republic of Genoa
Giudicato of Arborea
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The Giudicato of Logudoro, also known as the Giudicato of Torres (Italian: Giudicato di Torres, Sardinian: Judicadu de Torres), after Torres, the ancient name of Porto Torres, was a state that covered the northwest portion of Sardinia from the tenth through the thirteenth century. Logudoro was one of four giudicati into which the island was divided during the High Middle Ages. The others were Gallura to the east, Arborea to the south, and Cagliari to the southeast.

Logudoro was the largest (and earliest known) of the iudicati but also the second to be swallowed up by a foreign power. It was divided into 20 curatoriae, ruled by curatores.

In the ninth century, the Arabs and Imazighen followed aggressive policies of expansion and piracy in the Mediterranean. The conquest of Sicily by these groups in 827 effectively cut Sardinia off from the central government and military might of the Byzantine Empire. In the absence of instruction or reinforcement, the Sardinian provincial Byzantine officials, called iudici ("judges") began to govern autonomously. By the tenth century the island was divided into four of these provinces (giudicati, literally, "judgeships"), though two — Logudoro and Arborea — were combined at the start of the eleventh century. By 900, these districts had become de facto independent states, their ruling princes still titled as iudices or judikes ("judges"') after their imperial civil servant predecessors. The first capital city for the Giudicato of Logudoro was ancient Torres (now Porto Torres), but it was exposed to Arab attacks, and so the seat of the judgeship was transferred first to Ardara, and finally to Sassari.


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