Ajaccio (;, ; ) is a commune on the island of Corsica in France.

It is the capital and largest city of the region of Corsica and the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud.

Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of Marseille.

* Corsica Cola is a regional cola distributed by the Corsican brewery Pietra.

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

At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week ( three in the year 2000 ) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level, but is required at the University of Corsica.

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.

It is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about east of the French island of Corsica.

The island of Elba is the largest remaining stretch of land from the ancient tract that once connected the Italian peninsula to Corsica.

* 259 BC: The land fighting is extended to Sardinia and Corsica.

His name is now usually pronounced, but it was originally pronounced, with the stress on the first syllable, meaning " Corsica ".

Italian is also spoken by a minority in Monaco and France ( especially in the southeast of the country and Corsica ).

Maquis or macchia is a type of high ground in Corsica covered in thick vegetation.

* 1975 – The French département of Corse ( the entire island of Corsica ) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.

The well-known Romanesque church of Gavoi is dedicated to him, as is the town of San Gavino Monreale, and a number of communes in Corsica.

The sea is bounded by Corsica and Sardinia ( to the west ), Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata and Calabria ( to the east ) and Sicily ( to the south ).

** The steamship Persia is wrecked off Corsica ; 130 lives are lost.

* September 15 – The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.

Joachim Murat, the defeated King of Naples, is forced to flee to Corsica and is later executed.

Joachim Murat, the defeated King of Naples, is forced to flee to Corsica and is later executed.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

It was influenced by Southern Corsican, the dialect spoken in the near-by French island of Corsica, and by the one spoken in the Italian region of Tuscany.

Italian irredentists considered Nice one of their main nationalist goals, along with Istria, Dalmatia, Corsica and the South Tyrol.

Each mainland region and Corsica are further subdivided into departments, ranging in number from 2 to 8 per region for the metropolitan ones whereas the overseas regions technically consist of only one department.

The one possible exception may be the Malvoisie of Corsica that ampelographers believe is actually the Vermentino grape that may be related to Malvasia.

Peter IV, (, ;, ;, ) ( Balaguer, 5 September 1319 – Barcelona, 6 January 1387 ), called el Cerimoniós (" the Ceremonious ") or el del punyalet (" the one of the little dagger "), was the King of Aragon, King of Sardinia and Corsica ( as Peter I ), King of Valencia ( as Peter II ), and Count of Barcelona ( and the rest of the Principality of Catalonia as Peter III ) from 1336 until his death.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, one of them crashed into a mountain in Corsica in December, killing all aboard.

Subsequent conquests expanded into the Mediterranean, reaching Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Naples and Greece, so by 1350 the Crown of Aragon " presided over the one of the most extensive and powerful mercantile empires of the Mediterranean during this period " ( Woolard 16 ).

The player can enter a " World Championship " mode consisting of three stages: ( Desert ( which resembles African savanna ), Forest ( which resembles South American forests ) and Mountain ( which partly resembles Monaco and Corsica ) where their finishing position at the end of one course is carried through to the starting position of the next course.

The GR 20 ( or fra li monti ) is a GR footpath that crosses the Mediterranean island of Corsica running approximately north-south, described by the outdoor writer Paddy Dillon as " one of the top trails in the world ".

After that moment, the Sébastianis became the most influent faction in Corsica, replacing the Legitimist Pozzo di Borgo family — one of the latter, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, was a high-ranking Russian diplomat who negotiated with Horace Sébastiani on several occasions.

It consists of three overhead line sections: one on the Italian mainland with a length of, one on Corsica with a length of and one on Sardinia with a length of.

There was one bath for men and one for women, as found elsewhere in Corsica.

Citizens of French overseas dependencies, unlike their British counterparts, are considered French citizens as well, regardless of whether they were born on the mainland, Corsica or in one of the dependencies.

* On the North: A line joining Cape Corse ( Cape Grosso, 9 ° 23 ' E ) in Corsica, with Tinetto Island () and thence through Tino and Palmaria islands to San Pietro Point () on the coast of Italy.

* As part of the treaty of Anagni, the king of Aragon is recognized as ruler of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica by the pope but both islands remain in practice under Pisan and Genoese control.

The coast of Gallura is very jagged and continues along in a continuous series of small fiords, rock-cliffs and little islands that form the Archipelago of La Maddalena, a natural bridge towards nearby Corsica.

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king Genseric entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics.

Located in Sardinia and Corsica, the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age ( 18th century BC ) to the 2nd century AD, when the islands were already Romanized.

The Romans considered all Mediterranean islands to be small except for Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, and Cyprus.

Maxentius managed to be recognized as emperor in central and southern Italy, the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, and the African provinces.

Rome, which had dealt with Carthage with all due honor and courtesy during the crisis, going as far as to release all Punic prisoners without ransom and refuse to accept offers from Utica and Rebels mercenaries based in Sardinia to incorporate these territories into the Roman domain, seized Sardinia and Corsica and forced Carthage to pay 1, 200 talents for her initial refusal to renounce her claim over the islands.

In the 1648 Treaty of Münster, he was styled " Don Philip the Fourth, by the grace of God king of Castile, Leon, Aragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem, Portugal, Navarre, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Minorca, Seville, Cerdagne, Cordoba, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the Eastern and Western Indies, the islands and terra firma of the Ocean, archduke of Austria, duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan, count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Barcelona, lord of Biscay and Molina, etc.

It is closely related to the Common Starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

The major Mediterranean islands ( except the Balearics ) such as Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Corsica, Cyprus, and Crete are heavily affected in particular.

Mouflon were introduced to the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Rhodes and Cyprus during the neolithic period, perhaps as feral domesticated animals, where they have naturalized in the mountainous interiors of these islands over the past few thousand years, giving rise to the subspecies known as European mouflon ( O. aries musimon ).

In northern Italy and Corsica the Spanish Sparrow is replaced by the Italian Sparrow, and the two intergrade in southern Italy, as well as Malta, Crete, and nearby islands such as Rhodes.

After the mid-19th century, Adjuntas welcomed many immigrants from the Mediterranean islands Corsica and Majorca.

The Germanic tribe of the Vandals conquered Corsica and Sardinia from the Romans and held the islands until they were captured by the Byzantines.

It breeds on Mediterranean islands, typically including Corsica and Sardinia.

It is used in the islands of Sardinia and Corsica to produce an aromatic liqueur called " Mirto " by macerating it in alcohol.

Many overseas France islands were studied, as well as performing underground tests in the Alps, Pyrenees, or Corsica ; however, engineers found problems with most of the possible sites in metropolitan France.

Subtle differences in appearance are noted between the various subspecies of red deer, primarily in size and antlers, with the smallest being the Corsican red deer found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and the largest being the Caspian red deer ( or maral ) of Asia Minor and the Caucasus Region to the west of the Caspian Sea.

The areas targeted were Corsica, Dalmatia, Gorizia, the Ionian islands, Istria, Malta, County of Nice, Ticino, small parts of Grisons and of Valais, Trentino, Trieste and Fiume.

The Sardinian pika ( Prolagus sardus ) was a primitive lagomorph native to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Corsica until its extinction around the year 1800.

Musimon can also refer to the real animal also known as the mouflon ( Ovis musimon ), a wild short-fleeced mountain sheep found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and parts of mainland Europe.