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American ensign leaves base with company going round independent island capital
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ajaccio
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Ajaccio (; ; ; , ) is a French commune , prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud , and head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse (capital city of Corsica ). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west ...
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n. The capital and largest city of Corsica.
Usage examples of ajaccio.
From thence they could see Ajaccio all gay and illuminated, the port with its little fleet, and the streets crowded with people, as if it were a fete-day.
At last the chair of physics fell vacant at the college of Ajaccio, the salary being 72 pounds sterling, and he left for Corsica.
He was soon so accustomed to his new life in peaceful Ajaccio, whose surroundings, decked in eternal verdure, are so captivating and so beautiful, that in spite of a vague desire for change he now dreaded to leave it.
From the 72 pounds sterling which he drew at Ajaccio, an overseas post, his salary was reduced, on his return to the mainland, to 64 pounds sterling, and during the whole of his stay at Avignon he obtained neither promotion nor the smallest increase of pay, excepting a few additional profits which were unconnected with his habitual duties.