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10 unusual facts about Corsica


Balearic green toad

In spite of the name, this species is native to Italy (where it is present on all territories except for the extreme north-east and south-west) and Corsica.

HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia

At the Sardinian end, the new converter station was built next to the existing station but at the mainland end a new converter station was built at Suvereto.

In 1988 a third converter station, rated at 50 MW, along with a reversible ground electrode, was installed at Lucciana on Corsica, making the scheme into a multi-terminal scheme for the first time.

When originally completed in 1968 by English Electric, the scheme comprised two converter stations, at San Dalmazio in Tuscany on the Italian mainland and Codrongianos on Sardinia.

Ignacio Antinori

By the 1930s, Antinori was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the country, with close ties to French-Corsican heroin traffickers and American mafia bosses.

José Giovanni

José Giovanni (June 22, 1923, Paris, France – April 24, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French-Swiss writer and film-maker of Corsican origin.

Markku Alén

Having become unequivocal team leader in the aftermath of team-mate Henri Toivonen's death in Corsica the following year, Alén narrowly lost the 1986 World Rally Championship to rival driver, Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2 pilot Juha Kankkunen.

Paracentrotus lividus

After exceptional quantities of rain fell in Corsica in the autumn of 1993, there was mass mortality of urchins in the Urbini Lagoon.

Thunderbolt!

Thunderbolt! is a 1947 film documenting the American aerial operations of Operation Strangle in early 1944, when American flyers based on Corsica successfully impeded Axis supply lines to the Gustav Line and Anzio beachhead.

Xavier Hochstrasser

Xavier also has an older brother, Steve (b. 1986), who plays for AC Ajaccio's reserve team in Corsica, France.


1113–15 Balearic Islands expedition

Founded on a treaty of 1113 between the Republic of Pisa and Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, the expedition had the support of Pope Paschal II and the participation of many lords of Catalonia and Occitania, as well as contingents from northern and central Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica.

57th Operations Group

While the group was stationed on Corsica, director William Wyler made a 45 minute long Technicolor documentary film, filming combat missions of the 57th.

Air France Flight 1611

Air France Flight 1611 was a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III en route from the island of Corsica to Nice, France on 11 September 1968 when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice, killing all 95 on board.

Alf Bonnevie Bryn

He made several first ascents in Switzerland, Corsica and Norway, including the first successful ascent of Stetind in 1910 (together with Ferdinand Schjelderup and Carl Wilhelm Rubenson).

Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau

On 26 May 1811, returning from a mission to Corsica, Abeille encountered HMS Alacrity off Bastia and attacked the larger brig without hesitation.

Bank of Saint George

In 1453 the Republic handed over governance of Corsica, Gazaria, and a number of other possessions to Bank officials, though over the course of the fifteenth century the Republic gradually reclaimed many of its territories from Bank control.

Bariadorgia

While Bariadorgia was first mentioned in 1822 growing in the commune of Sartène on Corsica under the synonym Carcajola, ampelographers such as Gustave Foëx of the Viticultural College at the University of Montpellier and colleague of Pierre Viala have speculated since at least the early 20th century that grape was likely introduced from neighboring Sardinia.

Bonapartism

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).

Corsica Cola

Corsica Cola benefited from an unexpected kick start during its launch in May 2003: a heat wave.

Corsican red deer

Corsican Red Deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus Erxleben, 1777), also known simply as Corsican or Sardinian Deer, is a subspecies of the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Italy and Corsica, France.

Corte, Haute-Corse

Sites of interest include the Fortress (A citadella), the Museum of Corsica (Museu di a Corsica), and the University of Corsica (Università di Corsica).

Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio

Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio is a church in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, southeastern Corsica.

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

Elizabeth married Fremantle in 1797, after he had rescued her and her family from Leghorn (Livorno) during the 1796 French invasion of Italy and taken them to safety in Corsica.

Esprit Requien

He performed extensive studies of flora native to Corsica and in the environs of Mont Ventoux.

Étoile Filante

Étoile Filante Bastiaise (or ÉF Bastia for short) - French football club based in Biguglia on the island of Corsica

Flag and coat of arms of Corsica

The Moor's Head is also used on the Coat of Arms of Corsica and on the crest of Clan Borthwick.

Giustiniani

Pompeo Giustiniani (1569–1616), a native of Corsica, who served in the Low Countries under Alessandro Farnese and Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, where he lost an arm, and, from the artificial substitute which he wore, came to be known by the sobriquet Bras de Fer.

Gorgona Abbey

The abbey was re-founded in 1051, when the Mediterranean was more secure, and received endowments from the nobility of Pisa and the rest of Tuscany, and of Corsica.

Italian irredentism in Corsica

Many Corsican authors (who wrote in Italian) were influenced by the ideals of the Italian Risorgimento during the second half of the 19th century, such as Giuseppe Multado, Gian Paolo Borghetti, Francesco Ottaviano Renucci (Storia della Corsica dal 1789 al 1830 and Novelle storiche corse).

Jean Cavenac de la Vigne

In June, the armada sacked Sorrento and took 3,000 captives, but otherwise did little, and was delayed from joining a French fleet in Corsica, possibly due to the failure of the commander Dragut to honour Suleiman's orders.

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Born in Laon, Aisne to middle-class parents, he became a lieutenant of the Laon militia, and then entered the French royal army, served in the Seven Years' War campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762), and against Pasquale Paoli in Corsica (1771).

José Luccioni

José Luccioni (October 14, 1903 in Bastia – October 5, 1978 in Marseille) was a French operatic tenor of Corsican origin.

Kais al-Hilali

His death was marked across the world by with an outpouring of art from saddened and enraged political cartoonists many drawing their personal take on al-Hilali's death including Jeff Danziger New York Times Syndicate cartoonist in New York, Stavro Jabro -Lebonon, Cristian Sampaio -Portugal, Butti Manfuelli -Corsica, Avi Katz - Israel, Riber Hansso -Sweden, Saul Cabanillas - Spain, and Michael Kithla and Giorgio Foraltina.

Louis Michel Français Doyère

Louis Michel Français Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers; died 1863 in Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.

Louis Peru de Lacroix

Both of them had family roots in Ajaccio, Corsica, of Genoese ancestry, who often traveled to Portugal.

Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca

the Casabianca, the famous submarine which joined the Free French Forces during the Second World War, notably liberating Corsica.

Lucciana Cathedral

Lucciana Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption of Lucciana (French: Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-de-l'Assomption de Lucciana), also called La Canonica and Santa Maria Assunta of Bastia, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral and national monument of Corsica located in the town of Lucciana.

March of Tuscany

Before him, his father and grandfather, Count Boniface I of Lucca and Boniface II, probably of Bavarian origin, had controlled most of the counties of the region and had held higher titles as well, such as a Prefect of Corsica or a Duke of Lucca.

Master of Castelsardo

His other works included the retablos in the church of St. Peter at Tuili (executed between 1489 and 1500), in the church of Santa Rosalia at Cagliari, the Trinity Retablo (like the previous one, originally commissioned for the Frasciscan convent at Tallano, in Corsica, now in the basilica of Saccargia).

McDonnell Douglas MD-80

On December 1, 1981, Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, an MD-81 crashed into Corsica's Mt. San Pietro during a holding pattern for landing at Campo dell'Oro Airport, Ajaccio.

Michelin Guide

Guides were introduced for Algeria and Tunisia (1907); the Alps and the Rhine, covering northern Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria and the Netherlands (1908); Germany, Spain and Portugal (1910); the British Isles (1911); and "The Countries of the Sun" ("Les Pays du Soleil") covering northern Africa, southern Italy and Corsica (1911).

Moita

Moïta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Mozart in Mirrorshades

"Quiche-to-go" stores have been opened in France, and Napoleon Bonaparte is mentioned "chewing Dubble Bubble in Corsica".

Patois

Also named "Patuá" in the Paria Peninsula of Venezuela, and spoken since the 18th century by self colonization of French people (from Corsica) and Caribbean people such as JAMAICA, which is the main country that speaks this language (from Martinique, Saint Thomas, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Haiti) who moved for cacao production.

Patrimonio

Located 12 km from Bastia and 4 km from the micro-region of Saint-Florent, this wine-growing commune is the gateway to the Cap Corse (peninsula at the northernmost point of Corsica).

Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali (born April 28, 1930 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France) is a French author and filmmaker.

Pietro Rocca

Pietro Rocca (Vico, 1887 - Vico, 1966) was a Corsican politician and writer who supported Corsican independence from France.

Piyale Pasha

In 1554 he captured the islands of Elba and Corsica with a large fleet which included famous Ottoman admirals like Turgut Reis and Salih Reis.

Punics

Overseas they established control over some coastal regions of Berber North Africa like modern-day Tunisia and Tripolitania (modern-day Libya), Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, the Balearics, Malta, other small islands of the western Mediterranean and possibly along the Atlantic coast of Iberia, although this is disputed.

SACLANT ASW Research Centre

Since SACLANTCEN’s location, La Spezia, is close to the Ligurian Sea International Marine Sanctuary whose northern boundaries are the coasts of Italy and France while its southern limit is Corsica, the first aim of the SOLMAR programme was to monitor and acquire information on marine mammals living in that area.

Siege of Saint-Florent

The Siege of Saint-Florent took place in February 1794 during the French Revolutionary War when a British force joined with Corsican partisans to capture the French garrison town of Saint-Florent, Corsica.

Spotless Starling

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.

Treaty of Bastia

The treaty arose after assemblies of Corsican notables met in Bastia, Saint-Florent, and L'Île-Rousse, and sent an invitation to Bentinck to send troops and take control of Corsica from French imperial forces.

Vescovato

Vescovato, Haute-Corse, a commune in the Département of Haute-Corse, Corsica

Vladimir Raitz

On holiday in Calvi on Corsica in 1949, he was asked by a socialite with local connections, Nicholas Steinheid, to encourage British the following year.

Yvan Colonna

On the 6th of February 1998 at 9:05 pm, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, was assassinated as he exited a theatre onto rue Colonna-d'Ornano in Ajaccio.

However, an infrared camera set in the mountains of Corsica, near Vico as surveillance of a "bergerie", a traditional Corsican stone hut, yielded evidence that Colonna was hiding here.