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Italian irredentism in Corsica, the Glossary

Italian irredentism in Corsica was a cultural and historical movement promoted by Italians and by people from Corsica who identified themselves as part of Italy rather than France, and promoted the Italian annexation of the island.^[1]

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France–Italy relations
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Ajaccio

Ajaccio (French:; Aiaccio or Ajaccio; Aiacciu, locally: Aghjacciu; Adiacium) is the capital and largest city of Corsica, France.

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Algiers

Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Anglo-Corsican Kingdom

The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, also known officially as the Kingdom of Corsica, was a client state of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed on the island of Corsica between 1794 and 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Bastia

Bastia (Bastìa) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).

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Calvi, Haute-Corse

Calvi is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Corsica

Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.

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Corsican Constitution

The first Corsican Constitution was drawn up in 1755 for the short-lived Corsican Republic independent from Genoa beginning in 1755, and remained in force until the annexation of Corsica by France in 1769.

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Corsican language

Corsican (endonym: corsu; full name: lingua corsa) is a Romance language consisting of the continuum of the Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, France, and in the northern regions of the island of Sardinia, Italy, located due south.

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Corsican Republic

The Corsican Republic (Repubblica Corsa) was a short-lived state on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Corsicans

The Corsicans (Corsican, Italian and Ligurian: Corsi; French: Corses) are a Romance ethnic group.

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Corte, Haute-Corse

Corte (Corti) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department, on the island of Corsica, France.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Florentine dialect

The Florentine dialect or vernacular (dialetto fiorentino or vernacolo fiorentino) is a variety of Tuscan, a Romance language spoken in the Italian city of Florence and its immediate surroundings.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Free France

Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Genoese dialect

Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize, is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa, the capital of Liguria.

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Gian Paolo Borghetti

Gian Paolo Borghetti (Ghjuvan-Paulu Borghetti, Jean-Paul Borghetti, 23 June 1816 - 4 November 1897) was a Corsican writer, poet and politician.

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Gioacchino Volpe

Gioacchino Volpe (16 February 1876 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Giuseppe Garibaldi are italian irredentism.

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Italian irredentism

Italian irredentism (irredentismo italiano) was a political movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Italy with irredentist goals which promoted the unification of geographic areas in which indigenous peoples were considered to be ethnic Italians.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italian occupation of Corsica

The Italian occupation of Corsica refers to the military (and administrative) occupation by the Kingdom of Italy of the French island of Corsica during the Second World War, from November 1942 to September 1943. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Italian occupation of Corsica are France–Italy relations and italian irredentism.

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Italian occupation of France

Italian-occupied France was an area of south-eastern France and Monaco occupied by Fascist Italy between 1940 and 1943 in parallel to the German occupation of France. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Italian occupation of France are italian irredentism.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Légion impériale

The Légion impériale was a military unit created by the Vichy French government in November 1942, with the support of Nazi Ambassador Otto Abetz, to oppose the Allies, who had invaded North Africa in order to drive the Axis out.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Marco Angeli di Sartèna

Marco Angeli di Sartena (1905-1985) was a politician from Corsica, who wrote in the famous Literary Review "A Muvra".

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Niccolò Tommaseo

Niccolò Tommaseo (9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana (Tommaseo) (A Dictionary of the Italian Language) in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Niccolò Tommaseo are italian irredentism.

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Pasquale Paoli

Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli (Pasquale or Pasquali Paoli; Philippe-Antoine-Pascal Paoli; 6 April 1725 – 5 February 1807) was a Corsican-French patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island.

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Petru Giovacchini

Petru Giovacchini (Pierre Giovacchini, Pietro Giovacchini; 1 February 1910 – 29 September 1955) was a Corsican activist, born in Canale-di-Verde to an old family of the Corsican nobility with deep-rooted pro-Italian feelings. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Petru Giovacchini are italian irredentism.

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Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Philippe Pétain and Marshal Pétain (Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.

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Pietro Rocca

Petru Rocca (Pierre Rocca, Pietro Rocca; Vico, 1887 - Vico, 1966) was a Corsican politician and writer who supported Corsican independence from France. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Pietro Rocca are history of Corsica.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Republic of Genoa

The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Royal Italian Army during World War II

The Royal Italian Army (Regio Esercito), participated in World War II on the side of the Axis Powers on 1940.

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Simon Petru Cristofini

Simon Petru Cristofini (1903–1943), also known as Pietro Simone Cristofini (Pierre Simon Cristofini), was a Corsican soldier who commanded the Phalange Africaine during Tunisia Campaign in World War II and was executed for treason by French authorities because of his support for Italian irredentism in Corsica during the Italian occupation of Corsica. Italian irredentism in Corsica and Simon Petru Cristofini are italian irredentism.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Tuscany

Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.

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Unification of Italy

The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.

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Variety (linguistics)

In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.

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Victor Emmanuel II

Victor Emmanuel II (Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also known as Piedmont-Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Corsica

Also known as Corsican Italian, Corsican Italians, Italian Corsican, Italian Corsicans.

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Italian irredentism in Corsica, the Glossary

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See also

France–Italy relations

History of Corsica

Political controversies in Italy

Society of Italy

References