Bosa

Bosa is a town in the province of Oristano (until May 2005 it was in the province of Nuoro), part of the Sardinia region of Italy. Bosa is situated about two-thirds of the way up the west coast of Sardinia, on a small hill, about 3 kilometers inland on the north bank of the Temo River. The town has maintained a population of around 9,000 people for a significant amount of time, but has an urban character that has differentiated it from other locations in Sardinia. It has highly stratified classes, has acted as a market and political center, and has had some rudimentary industry. It also has had successful agriculture and fishing, because it is in the river valley near the coast, surrounded by hills and highland plateaus. In the last thirty years, Bosa has became tied to capitalist society and the market, importing much of their goods and exporting much less. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2112x2816, 4088 KB)A view of Bosa, Italy, a town on the west coast of the island of Sardinia, looking towards the marina and the sea. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2112x2816, 4088 KB)A view of Bosa, Italy, a town on the west coast of the island of Sardinia, looking towards the marina and the sea. ... Oristano (It. ... Look up May in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nuoro (It. ... Sardinia (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna or Sardinna in the Sardinian language), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Monte Roraima In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country. ... In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ...

Ecclesiastical history

It is asserted by some that the see was originally at Calmedia, but was transferred to Bosa after the destruction of the former town; also, that the first bishop was St. Emilius, sent thither by St. Peter and martyred in 70 AD but there is no historical evidence. According to tradition, Peter was crucified upside-down, as shown in this painting by Caravaggio. ...

Pope St. Gregory the Great, in one of his letters, speaks of a Bishop of Bosa, without mentioning the bishop's name. In 1073 Constantino de Castro, Bishop of Bosa, who according to an inscription had built the cathedral dedicated to St. Peter, was appointed Metropolitan of Torres by St. Gregory VII. Among the most illustrious bishops of this see are numbered: the learned Cardinal Giovanni Casanova (1424), G. Freancesco Fara (1591), author of the first (but very innaccurate) history of Sardinia; Serafino Esquirro, a learned theologian, who had been General of the Servites (1677). Saint Gregory I, or Gregory the Great (called the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy) (circa 540 - March 12, 604) was pope of the Catholic Church from September 3, 590 until his death. ... When the word metropolitan (from the Greek metera = mother and polis = town) is used as an adjective, as in metropolitan bishop, metropolitan France, or metropolitan area it can mean: of or characteristic of a metropolis; see also metropolitan area, Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Railway of or belonging to the home territories... Torres is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by FX Schmid in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. ... Gregory VII, born Hildebrand (c. ... The Servite Friars or Servants of Mary are one of the five original mendicant orders. ...

The diocese had in the early 20th century a population of 40,200, with 21 parishes, 104 churches and chapels, 100 secular priests, and 40 seminarians.

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Sardinia · communes of the province of Oristano

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