Bia de Plovake a Anglona (Road from Ploaghe to Anglona)
Anglona was a Curatoria, that means an administrative-judicial district, of Torres Giudicato, partially bordering on Ploaghe territory. The Curatoria was a whole of small peripheral and autonomous settling units, called ville or villaggi, subjected to a curatore who had mostly fiscal powers.
The road we are talking about, which allowed to link our village with the many towns of Anglona, was Palas de Monte, by taking which, passing in su caminu de sa giaga de Iscala Ruia, it got to Orria Pithinna, a ghost town in the territory of Chiaramonti. On by su caminu de sa Giaga de Santa Giulia, instead, it arrived Orria Manna, another ghost town in Nulvi territory.
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Bia de Plovake a Augustana (Road from Plovake to Augustana)
Agustana or Augustana was a little village in the territory of Ploaghe, disappeared in the first years of XV century, which went from padro de Piretu (nowadays Piredu) down to Rivuthu (Riuttu), embracing the whole Gurelle that, today, is named Buredda. From this area departed a small road which went to Domus Maiore, where now the homonymous fountain is found, and on up to Escala de Silique, in Sardinian language Iscala de Silighe (today the ascent of Domaiore), and finally to Cotinariu, the zone of Ploaghe known as Crastos.
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The place-name Domus Maiore, which in sources is shown with different spellings, like Domo Maiore, Domomaiore, Donmaiore, Domaggiore, has taken its origin from the name of the private property belonging to the maiore.
The domus or domo, which was a private property, having the first shown features, was placed in great estates. In the domo lived the ones who were busy in farming or upbringing cattle, mostly servants who, bound to the estate they lived on, were sold and claimed especially in reason of the work they could do.
The maiore, belonging to the class of maiorales (noble clergymen and laymen), that stands for landowners, and chosen by the curatore, could have tasks of control and ruling the town administration, both public and private: maiore de villa, maiore de camera, maiore de caballos.
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Bia de Plovake a Salvennor (Road from Plovake to Salvennor)
From Nurake de Athentu (attentu = wormwood), passing in Imbiricu (mount Imbiligu) where today Ploaghe railway station is found, it got to Salvennor. This road linked Ploaghe to a very important centre from an economic point of view: Saint Michael’s Abbey, monastery of Benedictine monks from Vallombrosa which settled in this area some year before 1138. The meeting with this new reality brought to the achieving of wide uncultivated areas and more profitable activities due to the use of new cultivating techniques.
Especially the cereal crops, helped by the swamp drainage, got great importance. The Vallombrosian were in Salvennor till the second half of XIV century, leaving us as written evidence of their stay the condaghe di S. Michele di Salvennor.
The condaghe was a register where the clergymen written down exchanges, sales, gifts, assignments of lands and servants, purchases and sells of cattle. From this register we get to know the huge real estates belonging to the monastery, about 6500 hectares, but, in the same time, we have a detailed topographical and geographical rural view of that time. The village of Salvennor was abandoned in 1751.
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Bia de Plovake a Gisarclu e a Ardar (Road from Plovake to Gisarclu and Ardar)
Taking the road named sa giaga de Santa Caderina, it got to Bisarcio and Ardara.
Bisarcio was a little town, abandoned in 1728, in Ozieri territory, which, in Middle Ages, was seat of diocese: the diocese of Bisarcio. Now in the village about 120 houses remains are left.
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Bia de Plovake a Thatari (Road from Plovake to Thatari)
This was the road called via Turresa, which past by the Codinedda near mount Tangone and then met the ancient Roman road Karalis–Turris.