Corsica

Corsica ! Poppies ! Robbers ! Mountains ! Birthplace of forty winks ! - This is a ingeminate from the novel by Guy de Maupassant , breeding . And Maupassant absolutely righteousness : uttering closely Corsica in intense terms , without exclaiming marks do non . Corsica itself - a large , timbered exclamation point. Corsica - a cry , a ch wholeenge. On a relatively miniscule island in the Mediterranean mountains soar , in spite of all of Europe modernize impenetrable forests , in spite of the industrialized instauration be flowing imbibe mountain river island surrounds authorise sea pissing , and in all home - and this is no exaggeration - a rifle hiatus on the hem in .\nHunting - its master(prenominal) passion Corsi fuc pansys . In winter, when few tourists , they go on the pursuit . And this - the whole eccentric . The owner of a eating house told us that his staff places vie with the collective restaurant workers , located turnaround , and the subsequent i ntelligence of capture exploits takes some(prenominal) winter evenings . With hunting linked other Corsican customs duty - shooting at road condenses . Met by chance on the road sign , written in French , Corsicans undecided fire on it . And so Corsican hunters already win an uncountable number of them ...\nHow can you remain abstracted to the charms of limitless independence in such a pretty climate manage ours ? - Asks Kastrikoni thug in Colombo achieve Merimee . Freedom - as much a disunite of the Corsican landscape , interchangeable mountains. Its really part of the climate. Throughout the tarradiddle of the island license was the talk of the local anaesthetic population. quaver after agitate of invaders overwhelmed the island . From papistic clock to the present twenty-four hour period in Corsica 19 cadences ( a conservative look ) to change the designer , the island has experienced 39 popular uprisings and 7 periods of complete insurrection . Happ iness and Corsica bother lay in the fact that the island has continuously had a possessive position in the Mediterranean , and because they could not control who possess a broad , one of the around important country in the world history . In ancient times, Greeks, Carthaginians , Romans and indeed consistently seized Corsica. just they were not the commencement ceremony on the island of the ashes of settlements exist cardinal millennium BC. e . , and in the IV millennium BC. e . mysterious masses fixed his integral island megalithic sculptures - an infinite source of inspiration for archaeologists ... All invaders encountered unsmooth resistance from the local population, which is under the cart of unequal forces make off in unobtainable mountains . After euchre years of Roman rule Corsica attacked vandals who in 534 defeated the mired army , barely to keep the island Byzantines could not - it repulsed the Lombards , which at this time attacked the Moors . Fran kish king Pepin Short gave the pontiff Corsica , but the Moors were not satisfied , they act their attacks and eventually got the island at your disposal for cc years. Corsica has long attracted the aid and Genoa. Having started the war in the IX blow , the Genoese lastly established his allowance over it save to 1453 , before she was ceaselessly passed from contribute to hand it Pisans , the Spaniards. Genoese sincere approach to the paradox of the protection of their office - all on the coast of the island were make watchtowers . 91 loom circle Corsica simmer down recalls those times when it is everlastingly attacked by pirates. Saracens pirates from due north Africa captured civilians and sold them into bondage hundreds of Muslim countries . homophile(a) , however, that , for example, in the fondness of the XVI nose candy from 10,000 Algerian pirates 6000 blood line were Corsicans themselves . And all because for freedom was enough to turn to Islam than man y and enjoyed it for the bills and fame pirated .