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<\/a>The island is an administrative region of France (with the regional capital being Ajaccio<\/a>), divided in two administrative departments, Haute-Corse<\/a> and Corse-du-Sud<\/a>. The corresponding regional and departmental territorial collectivities<\/a>, however, merged on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity<\/a> of Corsica. As a single territorial collectivity, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regional collectivities; for example, the Corsican Assembly<\/a> is able to exercise limited executive powers. Bastia, the prefecture city of Haute-Corse, is the second largest town in Corsica.<\/p>\n After being ruled by the Republic of Genoa<\/a> since 1284, in 1755 Corsica became a self-proclaimed Italian-speaking Republic, until it was officially ceded by Genoa to Louis XV<\/a> as part of a pledge<\/a> for debts and subsequently annexed to France in 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a> was born the same year in Ajaccio, and his ancestral home (Maison Bonaparte<\/a>) is today a significant visitor attraction and museum. Due to Corsica’s historical ties with the Italian peninsula, the island retains many Italian cultural elements, and the native tongue is recognized as a regional language by the French government.<\/p>\n Corsica has been occupied continuously since the Mesolithic era.<\/a> Its population was influential in the Mediterranean during its long prehistory.<\/p>\n After a brief occupation by the Carthaginians<\/a>, colonization by the ancient Greeks<\/a>, and an only slightly longer occupation by the Etruscans<\/a>, it was incorporated by the Roman Republic<\/a> at the end of the First Punic War<\/a> and, with Sardinia, in 238 BC became a province of the Roman Republic<\/a>. The Romans, who built a colony in Al\u00e9ria<\/a>, considered Corsica as one of the most backward regions of the Roman world. The island produced sheep, honey, resin<\/a> and wax, and exported many slaves, not well considered because of their fierce and rebellious character. Moreover, it was known for its cheap wines, exported to Rome, and was used as a place of relegation, one of the most famous exiles being the Roman philosopher Seneca<\/a>. Administratively, the island was divided in pagi<\/a>, which in the Middle Ages became the pievi<\/a>, the basic administrative units of the island until 1768. During the diffusion of Christianity, which arrived quite early from Rome and the Tuscan harbors, Corsica was home to many martyrs and saints: among them, the most important are Saint Devota<\/a> and Saint Julia<\/a>, both patrons of the island.<\/p>\n Corsica was integrated into Roman Italy by Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305).<\/a><\/p>\n In the 5th century, the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed, and the island was invaded by the Vandals<\/a> and the Ostrogoths<\/a>. Briefly recovered by the Byzantines<\/a>, it soon became part of the Kingdom of the Lombards<\/a>. This made it a dependency of the March of Tuscany<\/a>, which used it as an outpost against the Saracens<\/a>. Pepin the Short<\/a>, king of the Franks<\/a> and Charlemagne’s<\/a> father, expelled the Lombards and nominally granted Corsica to Pope Stephen II<\/a>. In the first quarter of the 11th century, Pisa<\/a> and Genoa together freed the island from the threat of Arab invasion. After that, the island came under the influence of the republic of Pisa<\/a>. To this period belong the many polychrome churches which adorn the island, and Corsica also experienced a massive immigration from Tuscany, which gave to the island its present toponymy and rendered the language spoken in the northern two-thirds of the island very close to the Tuscan dialect<\/a>.<\/p>\n Due to that, then began also the traditional division of Corsica in two parts, along the main chain of mountains roughly going from Calvi<\/a> to Porto-Vecchio<\/a>: the eastern Banda di dentro, or Cismonte, more populated, evolved and open to the commerce with Italy, and the western Banda di fuori, or Pomonte, almost deserted, wild and remote.<\/p>\n The crushing defeat experienced by Pisa in 1284 in the Battle of Meloria<\/a> against Genoa had among its consequences the end of the Pisan rule and the beginning of the Genoese influence in Corsica: this was contested initially by the King of Aragon<\/a>, who in 1296 had received from the Pope the investiture over Sardinia and Corsica. A popular revolution against this and the feudal lords, led by Sambucuccio d’Alando<\/a>, got the aid of Genoa. After that, the Cismonte was ruled as a league of comuni and churches, after the Italian experience. The following 150 years were a period of conflict, when the Genoese rule was contested by Aragon, the local lords, the comuni and the Pope: finally, in 1450 Genoa ceded the administration of the island to its main bank, the Bank of Saint George<\/a>, which brought peace.<\/p>\n In the 16th century, the island entered into the fight between Spain and France for the supremacy in Italy. In 1553, a Franco-Ottoman<\/a> fleet occupied<\/a> Corsica, but the reaction of Spain<\/a> and Genoa, led by Andrea Doria<\/a>, reestablished the Genoese supremacy on the island, confirmed by the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis<\/a>. The unlucky protagonist of this episode was Sampiero di Bastelica<\/a>, who would later come to be considered a hero of the island. Their power reinstated, the Genoese did not allow the Corsican nobility to share in the government of the island, and oppressed the inhabitants with a heavy tax burden: on the other hand, they introduced the chestnut tree on a large scale, improving the diet of the population, and built a chain of towers<\/a> along the coast to defend Corsica from the attacks of the Barbary pirates<\/a> from North Africa.<\/p>\n The period of peace lasted until 1729, when the refusal to pay taxes by a peasant sparked the general insurrection of the island against Genoa.<\/p>\n In 1729 the Corsican Revolution for independence from Genoa began, first led by Luiggi Giafferi<\/a> and Giacinto Paoli, and later by Paoli’s son, Pasquale Paoli. After 26 years of struggle against the Republic of Genoa (plus an ephemeral attempt to proclaim in 1736 an independent Kingdom of Corsica under the German adventurer Theodor von Neuhoff<\/a>), the independent Corsican Republic was proclaimed in 1755 under the leadership of Pasquale Paoli and remained sovereign until 1769, when the island was conquered by France<\/a>. The first Corsican Constitution<\/a> was written in Italian (the language of culture in Corsica until the middle of the 19th century) by Paoli.<\/p>\n The Corsican Republic was unable to eject the Genoese from the major coastal fortresses (Calvi and Bonifacio). After the Corsican conquest of Capraia<\/a>, a small island of the Tuscan Archipelago<\/a>, in 1767, the Republic of Genoa, exhausted by forty years of fighting, decided to sell the island to France which, after its defeat in the Seven Years’ War<\/a>, was trying to reinforce its position in the Mediterranean. In 1768, with the Treaty of Versailles<\/a>, the Genoese republic ceded all its rights on the island. After an initial successful resistance culminating with the victory at Borgo<\/a>, the Corsican republic was crushed by a large French army led by the Count of Vaux<\/a> at the Battle of Ponte Novu<\/a>.<\/p>\n This marked the end of Corsican sovereignty. Despite triggering the Corsican Crisis<\/a> in Britain, whose government gave secret aid, no foreign military support came for the Corsicans. However, nationalist feelings still ran high. Despite the conquest, Corsica was not incorporated into the French state until 1789.<\/p>\n Following the outbreak of the French Revolution<\/a> in 1789, Pasquale Paoli was able to return to Corsica from exile in Britain. In 1794, he invited British forces under Lord Hood<\/a> to intervene to free Corsica from French rule. Anglo-Corsican forces drove the French from the island and established an Anglo-Corsican Kingdom<\/a>. Following Spain’s entry into the war, the British decided to withdraw from Corsica in 1796. Corsica returned to French rule.<\/p>\n Despite being the birthplace of the Emperor, who had supported Paoli in his youth, the island was neglected by Napoleon’s government. In 1814, near the end of the Napoleonic Wars<\/a>, Corsica was briefly occupied again by British troops. The Treaty of Bastia<\/a> gave the British crown sovereignty over the island, but it was later repudiated by Lord Castlereagh<\/a> who insisted that the island should be returned to a restored French monarchy.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the restoration, the island was further neglected by the French state. Despite the presence of a middle class in Bastia and Ajaccio, Corsica remained an otherwise primitive place, whose economy consisted mainly of a subsistence agriculture, and whose population constituted a pastoral society, dominated by clans and the rules of vendetta. The code of vendetta required Corsicans to seek deadly revenge for offences against their family’s honor. Between 1821 and 1852, no fewer than 4,300 murders were perpetrated in Corsica. In this period a myth proved of interest as an historical fact by virtue of its being introduced by Herodotus<\/a> and furthered by writers like M\u00e9rim\u00e9e<\/a> and Gregorovius<\/a>, of Corsica as having been populated by Arcadians<\/a> (Oenotrians<\/a> and citizens of Phocaea<\/a>), fierce and loyal people. During the first half of the century, the people of Corsica belonged still to the Italian cultural world: the bourgeoisie sent children to Pisa to study, official acts were enacted in Italian and most books were printed in Italian. Moreover, many islanders sympathized with the national struggle<\/a> which was taking place in nearby Italy in those years: several political refugees from the peninsula, like Niccol\u00f2 Tommaseo<\/a>, spent years in the island, while some Corsicans, like Count Leonetto Cipriani, took active part in the fights for Italian independence.<\/p>\n Despite all that, during those years the Corsicans began to feel a stronger and stronger attraction to France. The reasons for that are manifold: the knowledge of the French language, which thanks to the mandatory primary school started to penetrate among the local youth, the high prestige of French culture, the awareness of being part of a big, powerful state, the possibility of well-paid jobs as civil servants, both in the island, in the mainland and in the colonies, the prospect of serving the French army during the wars for the conquest of the colonial empire, the introduction of steamboats, which reduced the travel time between mainland France from the island drastically, and \u2014 last but not least \u2014 Napoleon himself, whose existence alone constituted an indissoluble link between France and Corsica. Thanks to all these factors by around 1870 Corsica had landed in the French cultural world.<\/p>\n From the 19th century into the mid-20th century, Corsicans also grew closer to the French nation through participation in the French Empire. Compared to much of Metropolitan France, Corsica was poor and many Corsicans emigrated. While Corsicans emigrated globally, especially to many South American countries, many chose to move within the French Empire which acted as a conduit for emigration and eventual return, as many young Corsican men could find better job opportunities in the far corners of the Empire where many other French hesitated to go. In many parts of the Empire, Corsicans were strongly represented, such as in Saigon<\/a> where in 1926 12% of European were from Corsica. Across the French Empire, many Corsicans retained a sense of community by establishing organizations where they would meet regularly, keep one another informed of developments in Corsica, and come to one anothers\u2019 aid in times of need.<\/p>\n Corsica paid a high price for the French victory in the First World War: agriculture was disrupted by the years-long absence of almost all of the young workers, and the percentage of dead or wounded Corsicans in the conflict was double that of those from metropolitan France. Moreover, the protectionist policies of the French government, started in the 1880s and never stopped, had ruined the Corsican export of wine and olive oil, and forced many young Corsicans to emigrate to mainland France or to the Americas. As reaction to these conditions, a nationalist movement was born in the 1920s around the newspaper A Muvra, having as its objective the autonomy of the island from France. In the 1930s, many exponents of this movement became irredentist<\/a>, seeing annexation of the island to fascist Italy as the only solution to its problems. Under Benito Mussolini<\/a> annexation of Corsica had become one of the main goals of Italy’s unification policy.<\/p>\n After the collapse of France to the German Wehrmacht<\/a> in 1940, Corsica came under the rule of the Vichy French regime<\/a>, which was collaborating with Nazi Germany<\/a>. In November 1942 the island, following the Anglo-American landings in North Africa<\/a> was occupied by Italian and German forces<\/a>. After the Italian armistice<\/a> in September 1943, Italian and Free French Forces<\/a> pushed the Germans out of the island, making Corsica the first French Department to be freed. Subsequently, the US military established 17 airfields, nicknamed “USS Corsica”, which served as bases for attacks on targets in German-occupied Italy.<\/p>\n During the May 1958 crisis,<\/a> the French military command in Algeria mutinied against the French Fourth Republic<\/a> and on 24 May occupied the island in an action called Op\u00e9ration Corse<\/a> that led to the collapse of the government; the second phase of the coup attempt, occupying Paris, was cancelled following the establishment of a transitional government under Charles de Gaulle.<\/a><\/p>\n Between the late fifties and the seventies, proposals to conduct underground nuclear tests in the mines of Argentella, the immigration of 18,000 former settlers from Algeria (“Pieds-Noirs<\/a>“) in the eastern plains, and continuing chemical pollution (Fanghi Rossi) from mainland Italy increased tensions between the indigenous inhabitants and the French government. Tensions escalated until an armed police assault on a pieds-noirs-owned wine cellar in Aleria<\/a>, occupied by Corsican nationalists<\/a> on 23 August 1975. This marked the beginning of the armed nationalist struggle against the French government. Ever since, Corsican nationalism has been a feature of the island’s politics, with calls for greater autonomy and protection for Corsican culture and the Corsican language<\/a>. Periodic flare-ups of raids and killings culminated in the assassination of Prefect Claude \u00c9rignac<\/a> in 1998.<\/p>\n In 2013, Corsica hosted the first three stages of the 100th Tour de France,<\/a> which passed through the island for the first time in the event’s 110-year history.<\/p>\n Corsica was formed about 250 million years ago with the uplift of a granite backbone on the western side. About 50 million years ago sedimentary rock was pressed against this granite, forming the schists<\/a> of the eastern side. It is the most mountainous island in the Mediterranean, a “mountain in the sea”.<\/p>\n It is also the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean, after Sicily<\/a>, Sardinia and Cyprus<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is 183 km (114 mi) long at longest, 83 km (52 mi) wide at widest, has 1,000 km (620 mi) of coastline, more than 200 beaches, and is very mountainous, with Monte Cinto<\/a> as the highest peak at 2,706 m (8,878 ft) and around 120 other summits of more than 2,000 m (6,600 ft).<\/p>\n Mountains comprise two-thirds of the island, forming a single chain. Forests make up 20% of the island.<\/p>\n About 3,500 km2 (1,400 sq mi) of the total surface area of 8,680 km2 (3,350 sq mi) is dedicated to nature reserves (Parc naturel r\u00e9gional de Corse<\/a>), mainly in the interior. Corsica contains the GR20<\/a>, one of Europe’s most notable hiking trails.<\/p>\n The island is 90 km (56 mi) from Tuscany<\/a> in Italy and 170 km (110 mi) from the C\u00f4te d’Azur<\/a> in France. It is separated from Sardinia to the south by the Strait of Bonifacio<\/a>, which is a minimum of 11 km (6.8 mi) wide.<\/p>\n The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was 9.6 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 0.4% of French economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 25,400 euros or 84% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 103% of the EU average.<\/p>\n Tourism plays a big part in the Corsican economy. The island’s climate, mountains, and coastlines make it popular among tourists. The island has not had the same level of intensive development as other parts of the Mediterranean and is thus mainly unspoiled. Tourism is particularly concentrated in the area around Porto-Vecchio and Bonifacio in the south of the island and Calvi in the northwest.<\/p>\n In 1584 the Genoese governor ordered all farmers and landowners to plant four trees yearly; a chestnut<\/a>, olive<\/a>, fig<\/a>, and mulberry<\/a> tree. Many communities owe their origin and former richness to the ensuing chestnut woods. Chestnut bread keeps fresh for as long as two weeks. Corsica produces gourmet cheese, wine, sausages, and honey for sale in mainland France and for export. Corsican honey, of which there are six official varieties, is certified as to its origin (Appellation d’origine contr\u00f4l\u00e9e<\/a>) by the French National Institute of Origin and Quality (Institut National des Appellations d’Origine \u2013 INAO<\/a>).<\/p>\n Corsica’s main exports are granite and marble, tannic acid, cork, cheese, wine, citrus fruit, olive oil and cigarettes.<\/p>\n Corsica has four international airports:<\/p>\n Ajaccio\u00a0 –\u00a0 Napoleon Bonaparte Airport<\/a> All airports are served by regional French airline Air Corsica<\/a>, as well as Air France which mainly offers connections to Paris-Orly<\/a>. Budget carriers such as EasyJet<\/a> and Ryanair<\/a> offer seasonal connections to different cities in Europe.<\/p>\n The island has 232 kilometres (144 miles) of metre gauge railway. The main line runs between Bastia<\/a> and Ajaccio and there is a branch line from Ponte Leccia<\/a> to Calvi. Chemins de Fer de la Corse<\/a> (CFC) is the name of the regional rail network serving the French island of Corsica. The railroad retains the air of a friendly local railroad and is an excellent way to get around the island, for both the inhabitants and tourists.<\/p>\n There is a third line along the east coast that is not in use due to heavy damage during World War II<\/a>. John Smith and his consortium announced their intention to invest and redevelop in 2018. There has been talk of restoration, but no progress has occurred.<\/p>\n Corsica is well connected to the European mainland (Italy and France) by various car ferry lines. The island’s busiest seaport is Bastia, which saw more than 2.5 million passengers in 2012. The second busiest seaport is Ajaccio, followed by L’\u00cele-Rousse<\/a> and Calvi. Propriano<\/a> and Porto Vecchio<\/a> in the south also have smaller ferry docks and are seasonally served from France (Marseille), while Bonifacio’s<\/a> harbor is only frequented by smaller car ferries from the neighbouring island of Sardinia.<\/p>\n The ferry companies serving Corsica are Corsica Ferries – Sardinia Ferries<\/a> (from Savona, Livorno and Piombino in Italy; Toulon and Nice in France), SNCM<\/a> (from Marseille, Toulon and Nice in France), CMN – La M\u00e9ridionale (from Marseille in France) and Moby Lines<\/a> (from Livorno and Genoa in Italy).<\/p>\n The flag of Corsica was adopted by General of the Nation Pasquale Paoli<\/a> in 1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor’s head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background. Previously, the bandana covered his eyes; Pasquale Paoli wanted the bandana moved to above the eyes to symbolise the liberation of the Corsican people from the Genoese.<\/p>\n It was used by the Corsican Republic<\/a> and fell out of usage after 1769, when France forced the island’s former masters to sell it to settle the debts contracted by Genoa with France. This was to pay the costs of the French expeditionary corps which should have helped Genoa to secure its control on Corsica; French troops put down the long-standing rebellion on the island. During this period under French rule, 1769\u20131789, Corsican patriots again used the version of the flag with blindfolded eyes, as a mark of protest.<\/p>\n The unblindfolded version, quartered with the British coat of arms, was used as the official flag during the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom<\/a> of 1794-1796. It then fell into disuse until 1980, when it was officially re-adopted as the regional flag.<\/p>\n The Moor’s head is also used on the coat of arms of Corsica, the flag of the neighboring Sardinia<\/a>, the coat of arms of Aragon<\/a>, and on the crest of Clan Borthwick<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flag of Corsica was adopted by General of the Nation Pasquale Paoli in 1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor’s head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background. Previously, the bandana covered his eyes; Pasquale Paoli wanted the bandana moved to above the eyes to symbolize the liberation of the Corsican people from the Genoese.<\/p>\n It was used by the Corsican Republic and fell out of usage after 1769, when France forced the island’s former masters to sell it to settle the debts contracted by Genoa with France. This was to pay the costs of the French expeditionary corps which should have helped Genoa to secure its control on Corsica; French troops put down the long-standing rebellion on the island. During this period under French rule, 1769\u20131789, Corsican patriots again used the version of the flag with blindfolded eyes, as a mark of protest.<\/p>\n The unblindfolded version, quartered with the British coat of arms, was used as the official flag during the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom of 1794-1796. It then fell into disuse until 1980, when it was officially re-adopted as the regional flag.<\/p>\n The Moor’s head is also used on the coat of arms of Corsica, the flag of the neighboring Sardinia, the coat of arms of Aragon, and on the crest of Clan Borthwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59,26,5,27,6,7,29,87,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/The-Lighthouse-of-the-Citadel-of-Ajaccio-300x144.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/a>History:<\/h2>\n
Prehistory and Ancient Times:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Middle Ages and Early Modern Era:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Rise and Annexation of the Corsican Republic:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>19th Century:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Modern Corsica:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Geography:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Economy:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Transportation:<\/h2>\n
\nBastia\u00a0 \u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Poretta Airport<\/a>
\nCalvi\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Sainte-Catherine Airport<\/a>
\nFigari\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0–\u00a0 Sud Corse Airport<\/a> (near Bonifacio and Porto Vecchio in the south)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/A\u00e9roport-Ajaccio-Corse-300x225.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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<\/a>Flag of Corsica:<\/h2>\n
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