Corsica (disambiguation)
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Corsica is a large island in the Mediterranean Sea. It may also refer to:

Geography
  • Corsica
    Corsica
    Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

    , the island in the Mediterranean Sea
    • Corsica, Pennsylvania
      Corsica, Pennsylvania
      Corsica is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 354 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Corsica is located at ....

      , United States, named after Corsica
    • Corsica, South Dakota
      Corsica, South Dakota
      Corsica is a city in Douglas County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 592 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Corsica is located at ....

      , United States, named after Corsica


Transportation
  • Chevrolet Corsica
    Chevrolet Corsica
    The Chevrolet Corsica is a front-wheel drive compact car that was produced by General Motors from 1987 to 1996. The Corsica was built upon the L-body platform which was developed , as the successor to the X body...

     automobile
  • Corsica Ferries
    Corsica Ferries
    Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries are marketing names used by Corsica Ferries, a France-based ferry company that operates traffic to and from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia...



Music
  • Corsica (album)
    Corsica (album)
    Corsica is a folk music album by Corsican singer and composer Petru Guelfucci, released in 1996. The predominant themes of the album relate to Corsica's culture and beauty. All of the songs take up traditional and local styles, with some being of celebration, while others have sad, melancholic and...

    , by Petru Guelfucci
  • Mama Corsica
    Mama Corsica
    "Mama Corsica" was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, performed in Corsican and French by Patrick Fiori....

    , a song
  • Music of Corsica
    Music of Corsica
    Outside of France, the island of Corsica is perhaps best known musically for its polyphonic choral tradition. The rebirth of this genre was linked with the rise of Corsican nationalism in the 1970s...



Fiction
  • Asterix in Corsica
    Asterix in Corsica
    Asterix in Corsica is the twentieth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo . It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 687-708 in 1973...

    , a comic book in the Asterix
    Asterix
    Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...

     series
  • Corsica, a frog in the webcomic Sluggy Freelance
    Sluggy Freelance
    Sluggy Freelance is a popular, long-running daily webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams. The comic has over 100,000 daily readers and premiered on August 25, 1997...



Products
  • Corsica Cola
    Corsica Cola
    Corsica Cola is a regional cola distributed by the corsican brewery Pietra but produced in Cholet in western France.Corsica Cola benefited from an unexpected kick start during its launch in May 2003: a heat wave. The stock was exhausted in two months. On the 31 December 2003 in Corsica alone, the...

  • Corsica wine
    Corsica wine
    Corsica wine is wine made on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Located 90km west of Italy, 170km southeast of France and 11km north of the island of Sardinia, the island is a territorial collectivity of France, but many of the region's winemaking traditions and its grape varieties are Italian in...



History
  • Prehistory of Corsica
    Prehistory of Corsica
    The prehistory of Corsica is analogous to the prehistories of the other islands in the Mediterranean Sea, such as Sicily, Sardinia, Malta and Cyprus, which could only be accessed by boat and featured cultures that were to some degree insular; that is, modified from the traditional Palaeolithic,...

  • History of Corsica
    History of Corsica
    That the history of Corsica has been influenced by its strategic position at the heart of the western Mediterranean and its maritime routes, only from Sardinia, from the Isle of Elba, from the coast of Tuscany and from the French port of Nice, was first proposed by the 19th-century German...

  • Medieval Corsica
    Medieval Corsica
    The history of Corsica in the medieval period begins with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of various Germanic peoples in the fifth century and ends with the complete subjection of the island to the authority of the Bank of San Giorgio in 1511.-Eastern Imperial...

  • Flag of Corsica
    Flag of Corsica
    The Flag of Corsica was adopted by General of the Nation Pasquale di Paoli in 1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor's Head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background...



Politics
  • Corsica Nazione
    Corsica nazione
    Corsica Nazione is a Corsican nationalist party which aims to gain control over Corsica from France, regain national rights, and promote the Corsican national identity...

    , nationalist party
  • National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
    National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
    The National Liberation Front of Corsica is a militant group that advocates an independent state on the island of Corsica, separate from France. They also want all currently imprisoned members of the FLNC in France to be put into Corsican prisons. The organisation's presence is primarily in...


See also

  • Corsican (disambiguation)
  • Corse (disambiguation)
  • Corsa (disambiguation)
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