Sadali's territory in the past was populated in the pre-nuragic period, in the nuragic and in the period of the roman invasion which began between the third and the second century B.C.. Probably this was the last territory conquered by Romans while they were trying to conquer the fathomless Barbagia. There is no news about the various invasions which interested Sardinia from the first Neolithic period (6000-3000 B.C.) to the proto-Sardinian or prenuragic period (2350-1600 B.C.). Some old megalithic constructions attest that the area was populated during the apogeic Nuragic period, between 800 and 500 B.C., just after the arrive of Phoenicians. Sadali's area has no evidences of their presence, as well as there is no evidence of the Goths' invasion (455 A.C), of the Byzantine, Ostrogoths, Longobards, and of the Moor occupation of 711 A.C. Around the 11th century Sadali was included in the 'Barbagia of Seulo' and thus belonged to the 'Giudicato of Cagliari'. The old centre was built before 1335; the Aragona's Crown's Archive includes Sadali in that year. There is another document, the 'ripartimiento de Cerdena' or 'Compartimento de Sardenya' dated 1358, where 'Sadeli' belongs to the villages feoffed to 'En Johan Carroz' to the curatorìa of 'Siulo' (the neighbouring village of Seulo). It is possible to presume that the old Sadali's centre was risen as natural evolution from the old nuragic life to the middle age. In the period of the Sardegna Giudicale it belonged to the Giudicato of Cagliari until 1258; during that year the Capital S.Igia was destructed by a Sardo-Pisan coalition. It is not certain to which province it was designed: the Giudicato of Cagliari of the Giudice of Arborea, that of Gallura and the lords Donoratico from Pisa. Historically Sadali is designed to Giudice of Arborea. At the beginning of the 14 th century it was designed to the Pisa family, and in 1326 to the Aragona family; in 1479 it belonged to the Iberian domination, which lasted 400 years, with small austriac domination (1708-1717). In 1604 it was included Mandas's Prefecture, Mazza's feud, and later it was property of 'Tellez Giron' until 1839. Until the beginning of 8 th century the connections between Seulo's Barbagia and Campidano and Ogliastra were constituted by mule-tracks and the Barbagia was completely isolated when the river 'Dosa (Flumendosa)' flooded. In 1720 the Sardinian Kingdom was assigned to the Savoia's dukes, which created a bridge on the Flumendosa river to avoid the territory's isolation. Some historicians say that the bridge was rebuilt upon an old Roman bridge. In this period Sadali's area was included in Isili's province, together with other 15 provinces, after the Reggio Editto (King's Rescript) of S.M. 04-05 1807. in 1850, after that Sardinia was fused with Piedmont (in 1847), 13 years before it belonged to the Italian Kingdom, the connections Monastir-Mandas and Serri-Lanusei were finished; the last one was auctioned the 11 th of August 1832 from the General Commissariate Office of the Sardinian Kingdom. During its construction the old bridge on the Dosa river was abandoned, also because it was unfit for use after two arcs fell during the river's flood in 1846. A new bridge was constructed in Villanovatulo's area, and it was used on the S.S. 129 until the substitution, in the fifties, with the actual structure consecutive to the creation of the Flumendosa lake. |
