Does anyone know much about the cultural history of Corsica?

Question

I have an ancestor who comes from Corsica, an island off the south of France where Napoleon came from, however when i searched the internet Corsica seems to be so much more culturally different from France with a languague of their very own. I read on the internet that Corsica was invaded by the Iberians, people of Liguria, Phoenicians, Phocaeans, Etruscans, people of Syracuse, people from Pisa and the Genoeses but i dont have a clue where these people are from or if they have anything to do with the history of Corsica and it's original culture, can anyone help?

Answer 1

Man first set foot in Corsica at the beginning of the pre-Neolithic period. The farming pastoral tribes of the old Neolithic era (Aléria, Filitosa, Levie) succeeded the nomadic hunters (The Lady of Bonifacio" goes back to 6600 B.C. It was at the end of the Neolithic era that there was an increase in the megalithic monuments. The history of Corsica really began with the colonization of Alalia (Aléria) in the VI and V centuries B.C. According to the Greek historian Hérodote, it was through this colony that Phocéens instilled the island with religious cults and the techniques of the Mediterranean world. Nevertheless, the presence of the Phocéens, then that of Étrusques and Carthaginois was limited to the coast.

Answer 2

It was Italian ruled and then chnaged to be french around the birth Of napoleon

there are still villages that spak Italian there

http://www.corsica-isula.com/

Answer 3

You know much more about Korsika then I do. The only thing I know is, it is an Island,beautiful and the birth place of the great Napoleone. Try Wikipedia.