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Corsican-Puerto Ricans, French Americans, Italian Americans, Sicilian Americans, Maltese Americans, Catalan Americans, Gibraltarians Corsican Americans ( Corsican : Americani corsi ) are Americans of fully or partial Corsican descent.
Many of these mills changed hands between the Corsican-Puerto Rican community, and evident through decisions by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court. [23] The Spanish-American war allowed the sugar industry to thrive after American intervention since the industry was competing and losing to Cuba and Brazil.
Corsican society is a militarized society, during the Middle Ages, many Corsican mens had been part of Condottiere troops in the service of various kingdoms and empires in Europe. [31] This was probably due to the fact that Corsica, deprived of wealth resources, could only enrich itself at the time through its inhabitants waging war.
During the reign of Napoleon III Corsica suffered a decline in agricultural production (particularly in the wine, olive and chestnut industries) due to unfair trade practices imposed by France. That coupled with a population boom due to the eradication of malaria in coastal areas, forced many Corsican families to emigrate to the Caribbean .
Puerto Rican people of Corsican descent (32 P) Pages in category "American people of Corsican descent" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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 Ionian 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.
Italian-American history (6 C, 55 P) P. American people of Italian descent (14 C, ... Corsican Americans; I. Italian Americans; Italians in the United States before ...
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