Sardinian–Catalan war
| Sardinian–Catalan war | |||||||||
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The battle of Sanluri by Giovanni Marghinotti | |||||||||
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| Crown of Aragon |
Judicate of Arborea House of Doria Republic of Genoa | ||||||||
The Sardinian–Catalan war or Sardinian–Aragonese war was a late medieval conflict lasting from 1353 to 1420. The fight was over supremacy of the land and took place between the Judicate of Arborea, allied with the Sardinian branch of the Doria family and Genoa, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, the latter of which had been part of the Crown of Aragon since 1324. The conflict also included a systematic policy of persecution, mass murder and forced denationalization and assimilation, examples of which being the destruction of the villages of Aryagono and Rebeccu and the Alghero Massacre, perpetrated against the Sardinian population at the hands of King James I of Aragon, which according to the internationally recognized definition can be qualified as a genocide.