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Arbatax origin of the name is uncertain; the tradition is derived from the Arabic for "14th Tower" and refers perhaps to the nearby watchtower built by the Spanish to protect the territory from incursions by Arab pirates.
Campania Arbatax founders were fishermen from the island of Ponza located in Lazio, near the coast of the Italian peninsula.
Location assumed importance in the 1960s, mainly by building a paper factory in Sardinia.
And "the country's most well known in Ogliastra, a bit due to the commercial port and tourist, a little name catch, derived from an Arabic word which means" tower XIV "for tower Saracen that overlooks the sea.
Arbatax was born as a village of fishermen, many of whom come from nearby Ponza, he made most of his fortune fishing, due to a variety of fish and shellfish. Arbatax
Arbatax | Arbatax (Italian pronunciation: [arbataks]) is the largest hamlet (Frazione) of Tortolì, Sardinia, Italy. With nearly 5,000 inhabitants, it is also the third largest city in the province (Ogliastra) of population after the city of Lanusei (5700) and Tortolì
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