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238 BC
- While Carthage was occupied with the Mercenary War, Rome broke the terms of a treaty made after the First Punic War and annexed Sardinia and Corsica by force. In 238 BC the Carthaginians surrendered their claim to the islands, which together became a province of Rome.
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The history of Corsica goes back to antiquity, and was known to Herodotus, who described Phoenician habitation in the 6th century BCE. Etruscans and Carthaginians expelled the Ionian Greeks, and remained until the Romans arrived during the Punic Wars in 237 BCE.
In 181 BC the Corsi, a population living in Southern Corsica and North East Sardinia, rebelled against the Romans. The revolt was stopped by Marcus Pinarius Posca, who killed 2,000 rebels and enslaved a number of them.
The Roman conquest of Corsica began in 259 BC, when Lucius Cornelius Scipio captured Aleria (Greek 'Alalia') and several Corsican tribes, in the course of the First Punic War. The Roman invasion of the island marked the expansion of the war beyond Sicily to the entire western Mediterranean.
Corsica and Sardinia were conquered by the Roman Republic during the Punic Wars in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. They were initially administered as separate provinces before being merged into a single administrative unit.
Together with Sardinia, Corsica formed a province of the Roman Empire, under which the island’s economy flourished. The Romans also implanted their language, which became the foundation of the present-day Corsican dialect.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 16, 2017 · Soon after the beginning of the first Punic War (264-241 BCE) the Romans took Alalia (259 BCE.) and began their conquest of Corsica. But the interior was not pacified until 162 BCE. Towards 100 BCE Alalia city was rebuilt and renamed Aleria, it became a great economic capital with its fortifications, hot springs and important naval base.
FROM 259 BC: CORSICA IS ROMAN. Alalia becomes Roman and obtains its current name: Aléria. Corsica and Sardinia constitute a Roman province. Seneca is exiled to Cape Corse in 41 AD. Beginning of the Christianization of Corsica in the 3rd century. In 202 BC Saint Devota is martyrised by Quintus Gabinius Barbarus.