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TERRANOVA PAUSANIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 659 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERRANOVA PAUSANIA , a seaport of See also:Sardinia, in the See also:province of See also:Sassari, situated on the E. See also:coast, 14 m. S.W. of Golfo Aranci, and 72 M. E. of Sassari by See also:rail, and in the inner-most See also:recess of the sheltered gulf of Terranova. Pop. (1901) 4348. It occupies the site of the See also:ancient See also:Olbia (q.v.), and until the See also:traffic was transferred to Golfo Aranci, was the ,See also:port of embarkation for See also:Italy, as in ancient times. There is some See also:trade in See also:cork and See also:charcoal. The See also:place is See also:low-lying and malarious. The only See also:building of See also:interest is the Romanesque See also:church of S. Simplicio, once the See also:cathedral, which as it stands See also:dates probably from the 11th See also:century. It was the seat of the See also:giudici of Gallura, sent here by the Pisans in the I Ith century (but probably the native giudici resided at Tempio), and of an episcopal see, See also:united in 15o6 with that of Ampurias. The name Pausania is the consequence of an See also:error; it is a corruption of Fausiana, a See also:town and episcopal see of Sardinia mentioned by See also:Gregory the See also:Great, the site of which is in reality uncertain.

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