Ancient Sardinia

Roman province

thumb|right|Vandal coin found in Sardinia depicting Godas. Latin legend : REX CVDA. Godas (died 533) was a Gothic nobleman of the Vandal kingdom in North Africa. King Gelimer of the Vandals made him governor of the Vandalic province of Sardinia, but Godas stopped forwarding the taxes he collected and declared himself ruler of Sardinia.

battle of the Second Punic War, taking place when a Carthaginian army sailed to Sardinia in support of a Sardinian revolt against Roman rule

thumb|right|180px|Depiction of Sardus Pater in a Roman coin (59CE) Sardus (), also Sid Addir and Sardus Pater ("Sardinian Father") was the eponymous mythological hero of the Nuragic Sardinians. Sardus appears in the writings of various classical authors, like Sallust, Solinus and Pausanias.

Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War