Sant'Andrea Frius 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 Cagliari

Province of Cagliari

Cagliari is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Cagliari.It has an area of 4,470 km², and a total population of 543,310 . There are 71 comuni in the province....

 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 30 km north 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...

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Sant'Andrea Frius borders the following municipalities: Barrali

Barrali

Barrali is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located in the Trexenta about 30 km north of Cagliari....

, Dolianova

Dolianova

Dolianova is an Italian town and comune in the province of Cagliari, Sardinia. The town was born on June 25, 1905 from the fusion of two centers: Sicci San Biagio and San Pantaleo. Its economy is based on agriculture . The name "Dolianova" has obscure origins...

, Donorì

Donorì

Donòri is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 25 km north of Cagliari. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,104 and an area of 35.2 km²....

, Ortacesus

Ortacesus

Ortacesus is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 35 km north of Cagliari, included in the Trexenta traditional subregion....

, San Basilio

San Basilio

San Basilio is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, about north of Cagliari. As of 31 December 2004, it has a population of 1,371 and an area of ....

, San Nicolò Gerrei

San Nicolò Gerrei

San Nicolò Gerrei is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 35 km northeast of Cagliari, in the Gerrei traditional subregion....

, Senorbì

Senorbì

Senorbì is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 35 km north of Cagliari. It is the main center of Trexenta, located in an area traditionally devoted to the cultivation of cereals...

, Serdiana

Serdiana

Serdiana is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 20 km north of Cagliari. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,354 and an area of 55.7 km²....

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History

The are of Sant'Andrea was inhabited since prehistoric times, as testified by the presence of several nuraghi and other findings. The settlement originated as a Phoenicia

Phoenicia

Phoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...

n stronghold, later conquered by the Romans

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

, who had several villas here. In the Middle Ages it was part of the curatoria (shire) of Trexenta

Trexenta

Trexenta is a traditional subregion of Sardinia, Italy, located in the northern part of the province of Cagliari. It encompasses an area of c. 400 km², including 13 municipalities....

 within the Giudicato of Cagliari

Giudicato of Cagliari

The Giudicato of Cagliari was one of the four Sardinian giudicati of the Middle Ages. It covered the entire south and central east portion of the island and was composed of thirteen subdivisions called curatoriae. To its north and west lay Arborea and north and on the east lay Gallura and Logudoro...

 and, subsequently, was owned by the counts of Capraia

Capraia

Capraia, called Capraria in ancient times, is an island of Italy, part of the Tuscan Archipelago, off the northwest coast; it is also a comune belonging to the Province of Livorno. It is 62 km from the city of Livorno by sea, and 32 km northwest of the island of Elba; it is slightly...

 (1258) and, from 1295, by the Giudicato of Arborea. In 129 it was sold by Mariano II of Arborea to the Republic of Pisa

Republic of Pisa

The Republic of Pisa was a de facto independent state centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa during the late tenth and eleventh centuries. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian trade for a century before being surpassed and...

, who held it until the Aragonese

Kingdom of Aragon

The Kingdom of Aragon was a medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain...

conquest in 1353.

It became part of the province of Cagliari in 1821.