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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 AD, and ends with the complete subjection of the island to the authority of the Bank of San Giorgio in 1511.
La Corse [Corsica] (in French). Paris: Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-037169-4. Richards, Brooks (2005) [2004]. "Chapter XIX: Missions to Sardinia and Corsica: January–March 1943 and Chapter XX: Last Missions to Corsica before the Italian Armistice and its Liberation".
– Agostino Giustiniani in Description of Corsica, translation by Lucien Auguste Letteron in History of Corsica, Bulletin of the Society for Historical and Natural Sciences of Corsica – Volume I – 1888, p. 50. (in French) Continuing, he writes: "It is in this piève Bastia lies, home to the Bishop and Governor of Corsica.
The history of Corsica in ancient times was characterised by contests for control of the island among various foreign powers. The successors of the Neolithic cultures of the island were able to maintain their distinctive traditions even into Roman times, despite the successive interventions of Etruscans , Carthaginians or Phoenicians , and Greeks .
Asco is a remote commune high in the mountains some 20 km in a direct line south-east of Calvi and 15 km north-west of Corte.It is a commune which was part of the former Pieve of Caccia: a historic territory, geographically and culturally, which was made up of Niolo, Giovellina, and the Asco Valley which today is called the High Centre of Corsica.
The two major shipping companies providing these links are Corsica Linea and Corsica Ferries. Ferries Ajaccio has also become a stopover for cruises with a total of 418,086 passengers in 2007—by far the largest in Corsica and the second-largest in France (after Marseille, but ahead of Nice/ Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cannes ).
Chemins de fer de la Corse (Corsican: Camini di Ferru di a Corsica) (CFC) is the name of the regional rail network serving the French island of Corsica.It is centred on the town of Ponte Leccia, from which three main lines radiate to Ajaccio, Bastia, and Calvi.
Sagone is on the west coast of Corsica on the Anse de Sagone, a bay in the Golfe de Sagone, to the north of Ajaccio. It is in the commune of Vico. The D81 coastal road connects the village to Cargèse to the west and to Ajaccio to the south. The Sagone River flows through the town into the Anse de Sagone.
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