Magomadas

Magomadas (Magumadas) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 130 km northwest of Cagliari and about 40 km north of Oristano.

Geography
Magomadas borders the following municipalities: Bosa, Flussio, Modolo, Tresnuraghes.

History
The village was presumably founded by Phoenicians. The name Macomades is born by many ancient settlements around the coast of the western Mediterranean Sea. In Hebrew, of all contemporary semitic languages the most closely related to ancient Phoenician, maqom ħadaš means "new place".