This was a prestigious victory for the Corsican club facing St. Etienne of Michel Platini.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

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.

A political movement for Corsican independence surfaced in the 1990s which included a Bonapartist restoration in its programme.

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

The last historical possibility is that Proto-Corsican came from the Tuscan dialect of Pisa ; its period of Corsican administration, however, was relatively short.

Being unable to retain its rule in Corsica, where the rebel Corsican Republic was proclaimed in 1755, in 1768 Genoa was forced by the endemic rebellion to sell its claim to Corsica to the French, in the Treaty of Versailles of 1768.

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.

Being unable to retain its rule in Corsica, where the rebel Corsican Republic was proclaimed in 1755, in 1768 Genoa was forced by the endemic rebellion to sell claim to Corsica to the French and so Corsica was ceded in the Treaty of Versailles of 1768.

The tradition of Corsican polyphonic singing had nearly become extinct until its revival ( riaquistu ) in the 1970s.

The ARB, unlike its Corsican ( FLNC ) and Basque ( ETA ) counterparts does not seek to achieve human casualties.

It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d ' Ajaccio et Continental, in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio.

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.

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

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.

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.

: 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.

* The Corsican Twins ( Skip Hinnant and Jim Boyd ): Twin brothers who could inflict pain on each other by hurting themselves while they taught different phonics.

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.

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.

* 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

* April 6 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

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 ).

* Favours ratifying the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, for the recognition of regional languages of France: Alsatian, Lorraine Franconian, French Flemish, Catalan, Corsican, Breton, Gallo, Basque, Langues d ' oïl, Franco-Provençal and Occitan.

The two most widely spoken forms of the Corsican language are Supranacciu, spoken in the Bastia and Corte area ( generally throughout the northern half of the island ), and Suttanacciu, spoken around Sartene and Porto-Vecchio ( generally throughout the southern half of the island ).

Bastia's train station, which belongs to Corsican Railways, is situated in the city center and connects Bastia with Ajaccio and Calvi.

Corte is also linked to Ajaccio, Bastia and Calvi by the Chemin de fer de la Corse ( Corsican Railway ), and is served by trains running between Ajaccio and Calvi, and Ajaccio and Bastia.

File: Bombardement de Bastia en 1745. jpg | The British fleet bombarding the Corsican port of Bastia in 1745

Paul Giacobbi represents Haute-Corse in the National Assembly ( Émile Zuccarelli, an internal rival of Giacobbi and current mayor of Bastia also represented the island in Paris until his 2007 defeat ), and Senators Nicolas Alfonsi and François Vendasi represent the Corsican PRG in the Senate.

In the Mediterranean, following the British evacuation of Toulon, the Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli agreed with admiral Samuel Hood to place Corsica under British protection in return for assistance capturing French garrisons at Saint-Florent, Bastia, and Calvi, creating the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.

AC Ajaccio were elected Corsican champions on eight occasions, in 1920, 1921, 1934, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1955 and 1964, and are one of three big " island " teams, along with Gazélec Ajaccio and SC Bastia, the competition between the three being kept no secret.

Bastia then realized the greatest moment in Corsican sport ( see the movie Forza Bastia of Jacques Tati ).

Yahia started his professional career when he was loaned out by Internazionale in 2001 to Corsican side SC Bastia.

A crowd of 14, 421 was in attendance to see AC Ajaccio defeat SC Bastia in the Corsican derby.