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Olmedo, Sardinia

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ390772
Source-derived summary

Olmedo (Sardinian: S' Ulumedu) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Sassari in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Cagliari and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) southwest of Sassari. It has 4,240 inhabitants.

Olmedo borders the municipalities of Alghero, Sassari, and Uri.

Demographics

As of 2026, the population is 4,240, of which 49.8% are males, and 50.2% are females. Minors make up 13.4% of the population, and seniors make up 23.0%.

Immigration

As of 2025, immigrants make up 5.5% of the population. The 5 largest foreign countries of birth are Romania, Germany, Senegal, Switzerland, and France.

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The public source identifies “Olmedo, Sardinia” as italian comune. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Olmedo, Sardinia and Italian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Olmedo, Sardinia and Italian providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q390772. VIAF identifies the subject as 312588101. Authority coordinates are 40.651, 8.380. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2026 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from Olmedo, Sardinia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.