Regional identification is most pronounced today in cultures linked to regional languages and non-French-speaking traditions-French language itself being only a dialect of Langue d ' oïl, the mother language of many of the languages to-be-mentioned, which became a national vehicular language, like ( in alphabetical order ): Alsatian, Arpitan, Basque, Brezhoneg ( Breton ), Burgundian, Corsu ( Corsican ), Català ( Catalan ), Francique, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Occitan, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, etc., and some of these regions have promoted movements calling for some degree of regional autonomy, and, occasionally, national independence ( see, for example, Breton nationalism, Corsica and Occitania ).

The cyclopean nuraghes has more or less related cousins like the Mycenaean tholoi, the Corsican Torre, the Talaiots of the Balearic Isles, the Sesi of Sicily, and more ( the probably much later Brochs of Scotland are mentioned as well ): All these architectural forms have their origins from a common cultural matrix widespread in the Mediterranean, but in Sardinia there was an original and grandiose development that has not be found elsewhere.

maritima ) ( Corsican Pine ): Corsica, Sicily, Southern Italy.

" One of the twin brothers returns home from shooting in the Corsican mountains, and is visited by the ghost of the other twin.

On his safe return to Corsica he was warmly received by Pasquale Paoli, but found himself in opposition to the Bonaparte brothers who belonged to a different Corsican clan ( and one he detested ) who were now veering towards the Jacobin party.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

" The Latin relative pronoun, " who ," " qui ," " quae ," and " what ," " quod ," are inflected in Latin, while relative pronoun in Italian for " who " and " what " is " che " and in Corsican is uninflected chì.

The series follows the story of two young female assassins, the Corsican Mireille Bouquet and the Japanese amnesiac Yuumura Kirika, who embark together on a personal journey to seek answers about mysteries concerning their past.

Martin has Catalan ( Spanish ) ancestry through his maternal grandmother who was born in Spain as well as Corsican ancestry through his paternal grandmother.

They were ultimately betrayed by one of their party, the Corsican Boccheciampe, and by some peasants who believed them to be Turkish pirates.

* Pasquale Paoli ( 1725-1807 ), Corsican general and patriot who headed the Corsican struggle for independence

Carlo Andrea, count Pozzo di Borgo ( March 8, 1764 – February 15, 1842 ), was a Corsican politician who became a Russian diplomat.

However, due to confused orders, Algerian troops massacred 200 Corsican, Sicilian and Sardinian fishermen who were under British protection just after the treaty was signed.

Hood then turned to the occupation of Corsica, which he had been invited to take in the name of the King of Britain by Pasquale Paoli, who had been leader of the Corsican Republic before it was subjugated by the French in 1769.

It is believed that she may have had a romantic relationship with the Corsican Ange Chaippe, who often acted as her escort.

During the Corsican Crisis, sparked by the French invasion of Corsica, Shelburne was the major voice in the cabinet who favoured assisting the Corsican Republic.

Lowe later saw active service successively in Elba, Portugal, and Minorca, where he was entrusted with the command of a battalion of volunteer Corsican exiles in the British Army, the Royal Corsican Rangers, who were trained as Baker rifle armed light infantry.

* Félix Quilici, l ' homme à l ' écoute: interesting documentary about the man who first started collecting traditional Corsican music ( the " Corsican Alan Lomax ")-in French.

Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France.

In a strict sense, this term refers to people who aimed to restore the French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte ( Napoleon I of France ) and his nephew Louis ( Napoleon III of France ).

Carlo Maria Buonaparte ( 27 / 29 March 1746 – 24 February 1785 ) was a Corsican lawyer and politician who briefly served as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli and eventually rose to become Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI.

However, due to confused orders, Algerian troops massacred 200 Corsican, Sicilian and Sardinian fishermen who were under British protection just after the treaty was signed.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

Mass demonstrations in support of political status for Corsican prisoners were common and FLNC supporters were active in all protests which could be classified as " Corsican V French ".

At Genoa, Neuhoff made the acquaintance of some Corsican rebels and exiles, and persuaded them that he could free their country from Genoese tyranny if they made him king of the island.

On these occasions the reliable and yet unimaginative tactics Charles was fond of were not sufficient, except on one occasion at Aspern-Essling, to defeat the unpredictable Corsican.

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

Corsican ( corsu or lingua corsa ) is an Italo-Dalmatian Romance language spoken and written on the islands of Corsica ( France ) and northern Sardinia ( Italy ).

The Cultural Council of the Corsican Assembly advocates for its use ; for example, on public signs.

Genoese is not a likely possibility as Corsican is attested before the presence of Genoa on Corsica, and the linguistic features of Corsican do not match well with those of Genoese.

This Corsican Constitution was the first based on Enlightenment principles and even allowed for female suffrage, something that was granted in other democracies only by the 20th century.

Valéry was born to a Corsican father and Genoese-Istrian mother in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault, but he was raised in Montpellier, a larger urban center close by.

The same year when Britain and Spain became involved in the Falklands Crisis and came close to war, Pitt was a staunch advocate of taking a tough stance with Madrid and Paris ( as he had been during the earlier Corsican Crisis when France had invaded Corsica ) and made a number of speeches on the subject rousing public opinion.

In 1663 in retaliation for the attack led by the Corsican Guard on the attendants of the Duc de Créqui, the ambassador of Louis XIV in Rome, he attacked and seized Avignon, which at the time was considered an important and integral part of the French Kingdom by the provincial Parliament of Provence.

Corte (, Corsican Corti ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

: Mireille is a Corsican woman born into a powerful crime family, Mireille and her uncle are the sole survivors of a brutal attack on her family, whereafter he trained her to become an assassin.

Dumouriez then visited Italy and Corsica, Spain and Portugal, and his memoranda to the duc de Choiseul on Corsican affairs at the time of the Corsican Republic led to his re-employment on the staff of the French expeditionary corps sent to the island, for which he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

This was followed by The Corsican Brothers and Don César de Bazan ; and on 20 March 1861, he attempted Hamlet for the first time.

In 1978, Tati began filming a short documentary on a French ( Corsican ) soccer team playing the UEFA Cup Final, ' Forza Bastia ', which he did not complete.

Pozzo was one of two delegates sent to the National Assembly in Paris to demand the political incorporation of Corsica into France, and was subsequently one of the Corsican deputies to the Legislative Assembly, where he sat on the benches of the right until the events of August 1792.

* Bowden, S. R. ( 1966b ) ' Irregular ' diapause in Pieris, with a note on Corsican Pieris brassicae L. Proc.

Sassarese emerged as an urban language of commerce in the age of Giudicati ( 13th-14th century ); it is based on a mixture of different languages, namely Corsican, Tuscan dialect and Ligurian ; a strong Logudorese influence can be felt in its phonetics, syntax, and vocabulary, a minor influence in vocabulary was exercised by Catalan and Spanish.

The woods comprise Scots pine, Maritime pine and Corsican Pine growing on sand.

Phillips ' first assignment was on the White Star Line ship Teutonic and he later worked on board the Campania, the Corsican, the Victorian, the Pretorian, the and the.