Crossword clues for corsica
corsica
- Napoleon's birthplace
- One of the 27 regions of France
- Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte
- An island in the Mediterranean
- With adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
- A region of France on the island of Corsica
- French island
- First of clues
- Fabulous bird raised, literally, on an island
- Large French island
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corsica \Corsica\ n.
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an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France.
Syn: Corse.
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a region of France.
Syn: Corse.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 157
Land area (2000): 0.466479 sq. miles (1.208174 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.466479 sq. miles (1.208174 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16304
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.181233 N, 79.202287 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15829
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corsica
Housing Units (2000): 271
Land area (2000): 0.665726 sq. miles (1.724223 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004939 sq. miles (0.012793 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.670665 sq. miles (1.737016 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13980
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.424328 N, 98.406032 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57328
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corsica
Wikipedia
Corsica is a large French island in the Mediterranean Sea.
It may also refer to:
- Corsica (album), a folk music album by Petru Guelfucci
- Corsica, Pennsylvania, a town in the United States
- Corsica, South Dakota, a town in the United States
- Chevrolet Corsica, an automobile model
- Corsica, a frog in the webcomic Sluggy Freelance
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 sometimes mourning tones. The album sold nearly a million copies worldwide and won a gold record award in Canada.
Corsica (; ; Corsican and Italian: Corsica ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to France. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the Italian island of Sardinia. Mountains make up two-thirds of the island, forming a single chain.
Corsica is one of the 18 regions of France, though it is also designated as a territorial collectivity (collectivité territoriale) by law. As a territorial collectivity, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regions; for example, the Corsican Assembly is able to exercise limited executive powers.
The island formed a single department until it was split in 1975 into two departments: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica), with its regional capital in Ajaccio, the prefecture city of Corse-du-Sud. Bastia, the prefecture city of Haute-Corse, is the second-largest settlement in Corsica.
After being ruled by the Republic of Genoa since 1284, Corsica was briefly an independent Corsican Republic from 1755 until it was conquered by France in 1769. Due to Corsica's historical ties with the Italian peninsula, the island retains to this day many elements of the culture of Italy. The native Corsican language, whose northern variant is closely related to the Italian language, is recognised as a regional language by the French government. This Mediterranean island was ruled by various nations over the course of history but had several brief periods of independence.
Napoleon was born in 1769 in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio. His ancestral home, Maison Bonaparte, is today used as a museum.
Usage examples of "corsica".
At last the chair of physics fell vacant at the college of Ajaccio, the salary being 72 pounds sterling, and he left for Corsica.
In the spring of this year, having published my Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island, I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr. Johnson, and hear him upon the subject.
Shortly afterward, Nelson was detached with a small squadron, to cooperate with General Paoli and the Anti-Gallican party in Corsica.
As he maneuvered the rented Corsica out of the parking lot, snow splat ted against his windshield in big, wet flakes, and he turned his wipers on to keep up with the pace.
He was a man of forty, and styled himself son of the late Theodore, the pretender to the throne of Corsica, who had died miserably in London fourteen years before, after having been imprisoned for debt for seven years.
Seneca, from his own experience, has deplored and exaggerated the miserable state of Corsica, ^97 and the plenty of Sardinia was overbalanced by the unwholesome quality of the air.
After lingering there many years, he was released under an act of insolvency, in consequence of which he made over the kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors, and died shortly after his deliverance.
There an enterprising merchant from Corsica had imported three of the large china chamber pots containing on their sides portraits of Franklin, and on their insides glazed representations of the coonskin cap.
When he thought of Paris, take-out quiche-to-go stores springing up where guillotines might have been, a six-year-old Napoleon munching Dubble Bubble in Corsica, he felt like the archangel Michael on speed.
Anxious as you may suppose I was to behold and comfort my dear sister, I lost no time in hastening to Corsica, but when I arrived at Rogliano I found a house of mourning, the consequences of a scene so horrible that the neighbors remember and speak of it to this day.
During his four months' land service in Corsica, he had lost all his ship furniture, owing to the movements of a camp.
The Turkish freighter that had been running refugees illegally from Corsica to Lisbon had lost its British navicert, and could not transit Gibraltar.
Sardinia and Corsica surrendered to an officer, who carried, instead of a sword, the head of the valiant Zano.