– HISTORY –
Over the centuries, around the eleventh century, the dominion was exercised by the powerful city of Pisa, and then passed into the hands of the Aragonese dynasty and the republic of Genoa, but soon the island of Corsica became a reason of interest for the nearby Turkish powers that, with the aim of securing dominion over the territory, entered into an agreement with France, thus began fights and clashes that also saw Charles V, Spain, Germany and England as protagonists until peace was stipulated of Cateau-Cambresis, with which all the territory was returned to Genoa.
For a few centuries the Genoese republic managed to maintain control over the island, until, in 1600, following a profound cultural crisis and it is at this point that French power comes into play, a dominion that has continued uninterrupted for over two centuries.
Corsica was already inhabited in the Palaeolithic age, the first finds of work tools and votive statuettes date back to this period, dolmens and menhirs come from the Megalithic, located mainly in the northern part of the island, in the classical era, the Mediterranean area is affected from the different dominations by the Phoenicians and the Greeks, the latter soon avoided by the arrival of the Carthaginians first and then the Etruscans.
The Etruscan domination was followed by the more stable presence of the Romans, who managed to dominate the territory for over seven centuries, until the invasions of Vandals and Goths; during the early medieval period, however, power passed into the hands of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the territory was then forced to undergo the domination of the Lombards and Arabs.