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In the 9th century , Corsica was conquered by Arabs and Muslims from Spain, and in the 11th and 18th centuries the Pisans and the Genoese dominated the island. The indigenous population preferred to live in the central part of the island, which contributed to relative security and prevented them from mingling with foreigners.
There is also the possibility that the Nuragic peoples may have been related to the Etruscans and other Tyrsenian peoples and languages. [2] One of the Sea Peoples (the Shardana or Sherden) may have been either a population hailing from Sardinia (Ugas 2005, 2016) or a group of tribes that migrated to the island in the Late Bronze Age (Sandars ...
Noted by Ptolemy (III, 3), [1] they dwelt at the extreme north-east of Sardinia, in the region today known as Gallura, near the Tibulati and immediately north of the Coracenses. According to historian Ettore Pais and archeologist Giovanni Ugas, the Corsi probably belonged to the Ligurian people.
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
Corsica (/ ˈ k ɔːr s ɪ k ə / KOR-sik-ə; Corsican: [ˈkorsiɡa, ˈkɔrsika]; Italian: Corsica; French: Corse ⓘ) [3] is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland , west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north ...
At a 1977 United Nations conference in Geneva, Indigenous delegates from around the world resolved “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International ...
Petru Giovacchini (1910-1955), fascist and pro-Italian collaborator in World War II; Jean César Graziani (1859–1932), Corsican French Army general who served in World War I; Arturo Hernandez Grisanti (1928-2008), Venezuelan writer politician of Corsican ancestry; Raul Leoni (1905-1972), president of Venezuela 1964-1969, of Corsican ancestry
People by populated place in Corsica (4 C) People from Corse-du-Sud (6 C, 36 P) Corsican collaborators with Nazi Germany (5 P) Corsican Resistance members (7 P) H.