Bitti
Sign in to saveBitti () is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region of Sardinia. It is located about north of Cagliari and about north of Nuoro. Bitti borders the municipalities of Alà dei Sardi, Buddusò, Lodè, Lula, Nule, Onanì, Orune, Osidda, and Padru.
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Bitti is a small municipality located in the Nuoro Province of Sardinia, Italy, positioned north of both the regional capital Cagliari and the provincial capital Nuoro. It is a local administrative area that borders nine neighboring municipalities in the region.
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- Italian comune.name
- Bitti
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Bitti
- Italian comune.native_name
- Bitzi
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- Bitti panorama da gurumuru.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- bitti-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.pushpin_map
- Italy Sardinia
- Italian comune.region
- Sardinia
- Italian comune.province
- Nuoro (NU)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Giuseppe Ciccolini
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 216.2
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2823
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 June 2017
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Bitti () is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region of Sardinia. It is located about north of Cagliari and about north of Nuoro. Bitti borders the municipalities of Alà dei Sardi, Buddusò, Lodè, Lula, Nule, Onanì, Orune, Osidda, and Padru.
==History== left|thumb|View of Bitti The commune takes its name from the Sardinian language term bitta for female deer. There had been evidence of a pre-historic Nuragic civilization settlement on the land where Bitti is located. This came from a series of granite huts and temples that extended up to a plateau in the nearby forest. There was evidence that it was already existing in Roman times. The name of Bitti came from a 2nd-3rd century AD settlement. it is mentioned in 1170 as Bitthe. Bitti was a provincial capital of the Giudicato of Gallura and, from the 14th century, was part of the Giudicato of Torres. It was later included in the marquisate of Orani. The modern village was constructed and developed around the Roman Catholic Church of St George's.