Byzantine Sardinia

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Byzantine Sardinia was the period and administrative entity in which the island of Sardinia was governed as a distant province of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, maintaining Roman institutions and Christianity under imperial rule.

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Label Occurrences
Byzantine Sardinia canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine province
former administrative division of the Byzantine Empire
historical polity
appliesToTerritory Sardinia NERFINISHED
capital Cagliari NERFINISHED
country Byzantine Empire
culturalInfluence Byzantine art NERFINISHED
Byzantine military architecture
currency Byzantine coinage
economy based on agriculture and pastoralism
endTime 9th century
c. 9th–10th century
followedBy Judicates of Sardinia NERFINISHED
follows Vandal Kingdom in Sardinia NERFINISHED
Western Roman administration in Sardinia
governmentType Byzantine provincial administration
hasHistoricalPeriod Early Middle Ages NERFINISHED
headOfGovernmentTitle dux
iudex
praeses
heritage continuation of Roman law
preservation of Latin Christian culture
languageUsed Greek
Latin
legalSystem Roman law NERFINISHED
locatedIn Mediterranean Sea
Western Mediterranean NERFINISHED
maintained Roman institutions
militaryRole frontier province against western Mediterranean powers
partOf Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED
Exarchate of Africa NERFINISHED
Praetorian prefecture of Africa NERFINISHED
precededBy Roman Sardinia NERFINISHED
religion Chalcedonian Christianity NERFINISHED
Christianity
religiousAdministration links to the Patriarchate of Constantinople
subordination to the papacy in Rome
significantEvent Arab raids on Sardinia NERFINISHED
Justinianic reconquest of Sardinia NERFINISHED
loss of contact with Constantinople
startTime 534
6th century
succeededBy Judicate of Arborea NERFINISHED
Judicate of Cagliari NERFINISHED
Judicate of Gallura NERFINISHED
Judicate of Torres NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Byzantine Sardinia
Description of subject: Byzantine Sardinia was the period and administrative entity in which the island of Sardinia was governed as a distant province of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, maintaining Roman institutions and Christianity under imperial rule.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Exarchate of Africa appliesToJurisdiction Byzantine Sardinia