The History of Corsica
The human presence in the Corsica (Cirnos, for the ancient Greek), can be made to go up again to 6.000 to.C., when populations coming from Sardinia are installed in the island. Beginning from 3000 to.C. it developed him the civilization megalitica, analogous to that sort, more or less in the same period, on good part of the European territory. The center of the civilization megalitica was found where in the south-western part of the island, beginning from 1600 to.C. the appeared statue-menhir of imposing and primitive human forms, perhaps gravestones. Around 2000 to.C., in the south-oriental part of the island it developed him the civilization of the Toreanis, whose name derives from thick constructions, to form of tower, similar to the first nuraghis of Sardinia.
In 565 to.C. Greek exiles found the colony of Alalia, conquered by the Romans in 259 to.C., what they change her the name in Aleria. Corsica is conquered by the Vandals in the 460 d.C. then, from 534 to 725, it enters to belong to the Byzantine empire, therefore you/he/she is occupied by the Saracens, that install him on the coasts. At the end of the year 1000 pass under the domino in Pisa, that in 1284, after the defeat of the Meloria, it surrenders her/it to Genoa. The island passes then under the Aragon therefore, in 1553, you/he/she is occupied by Henry II, king of France, that returns her/it to Genoa up to when, in 1790, Corsica becomes a French department, to be such up to 1970, when the Region Corsica is founded. To underline that in the seventies the Front of National Liberation is constituted, carrier of finality indipendentiste, active still today.
