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The Barbagia is the most interior and mountainous region of Sardinia, it was called Barbarěa by the ancient romans, it means land of the barbarians.
It's problably the only region located in the Mediterranean Sea tha wasn't conquered by the romans.
The name comes from Cicero, who described it as a land of barbarians. This word derives from the Greek Βάρβαρος-ου, which means stuttering. The inhabitants were also known, by the ancient Romans, with the pejorative term latrones mastrucati, which means "thieves with a rough garment in wool".
The Pope Gregory I, in 594 AD, described the Barbagia's people (that was pagan) as "irrational animals, ignorant of the truth of God and worshiping wood and stone."
The inhabitants of this mountain region call themselves Barbaricini still today, that means Barbarians.
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