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A new generation carried the torch with the foundation of A Cispra newspaper in 1914, which made the first demands for a Corsican political separatism: "Corsica is not a department of France. It is a nation that has been conquered and will rise again." It was World War I that generated an audience for these previously marginal ideas ...
A movement for internal self-determination for Corsica can be traced back to a document titled Autonomia in 1974. [3]After a 40-year militant campaign for Corsican independence following the founding of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) in 1976, militants laid down arms in 2014.
The Corsican conflict (Corsican: Conflittu Corsu; French: Conflit Corse) is an armed and political conflict on the island of Corsica which began in 1976 between the government of France and Corsican nationalist militant groups, mainly the National Liberation Front of Corsica (Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica, FLNC) and factions of the group.
Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona in October 2019 Scottish independence supporters in Glasgow. Scotland held an independence referendum on 18 September 2014. This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe.
List of active separatist movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations; List of political parties campaigning for self-government; List of active rebel groups. List of rebel groups that control territory; List of anarchist communities. List of anarchist organizations; Stateless society; Stateless nation; Independence. Self determination
Before the FLNC formed, many armed groups were already leading small-scale insurgencies across Corsica. Many formed in protest of the pied-noirs, who were buying up the only arable land from Corsica while fleeing the Algerian war, and many regionalists were fighting for Corsican representation as a French region (Corsica was part of Provence-Alpes-Côté d’Azur until 1975).
Corsica was briefly independent as a Kingdom in union with Great Britain after the French Revolution in 1789, with a viceroy and elected Parliament, but returned to French rule in 1796. Corsica strongly supported the allies in World War I, caring for wounded, and housing POWs. The poilus fought loyally and suffered great casualties. A recession ...
The Corsican Republic (Italian: Repubblica Corsa) was a short-lived state on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. It was proclaimed in July 1755 by Pasquale Paoli, who was seeking independence from the Republic of Genoa. Paoli created the Corsican Constitution, which was the first constitution written in the Italian language.