Civilizations which followed one another consequently had to face the covetousness of the Mediterranean people.
The age of bronze left many traces, thus the amateur will not fail to visit the sites megalithic of Curia and Palaggiu in the south of Sarténe. and also the site of Filitosa in the north of the Gulf of valinco.
In Antiquity, Phenicians then the Greeks approached the accessible shores of the island, it remains about it archaeological vestiges, the Romans who took over founded cities, Alalia (Aléria), Mariana… without never being able to be established durably.
The Republic of Pisa then Génois had with load the administration of Corsica, of the Average Age to the Rebirth. This period sinks of the insular history was marked by many popular revolts, repressed in blood, the national conscience started to come up under the Italian yoke.
In these disturbed times it is sea which the greatest danger came: the raids sarrasines. The genoises towers (more rarely pisanes) which girdles the littoral, testify still today to terror that the barbaresque ones represented.
In 1755 Pasquale Paoli, elected general of the nation by risen patriots, seizes the power and institutes a Republic whose Constitution affirms already: “All the men are born free and equal in rights”. In 1762, the head of Moor becomes national emblem and the university of Corte opens its doors in 1765. However, the foreign pressures remain, and after forty years of war, Corsica becomes French in 1768.
At the XIXe century, misery reigns on all the island, much of Corsicans emigrate towards the countries of South America or towards the colonies. However, one retains this period only the romantic image reported by Balzac or Mérimée, the legendary gangsters of honor overheat the spirits.
Corsica will pay a heavy tribute (20 000 dead) at the time of the Large War. In 39-45, the patriots will allow, since 1943, in Corsica to be the first French department “car-to release itself”.
Since, regionalism with nationalism, the Island of Beauty seeks to affirm its identity for better protecting its richnesses and seeing them bearing fruit. |
