History of Corsica
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history-of-corsica-187-10244811
title:
History of Corsica
text:
The history of Corsica goes back to antiquity, and was known to Herodotus, who described Phoenician habitation in the 6th century BCE. Etruscans and Carthaginians expelled the Phocaean Greeks, and remained until the Romans arrived during the Punic Wars in 237 BCE. Vandals occupied it in 430 CE, followed by the Byzantine Empire a century later. Raided by various Germanic and other groups for two centuries, it was conquered in 774 by Charlemagne under the Holy Roman Empire, which fought for contro
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
The Mediterranean island of Corsica throughout the ages
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Corsica
date created:
2007-05-31T04:46:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T12:14:31Z
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