The Corsi were an ancient people of Sardinia and Corsica , to which they gave the name, as well as one of the three major groups among which the ancient Sardinians considered themselves divided (along with the Balares and the Ilienses ). Noted by Ptolemy (III, 3), they dwelt at the extreme north-east of Sardinia, in the region today known as Gallura , near the Tibulati and immediately north of the Coracenses .
5-443: Corsi may refer to: Corsi people , an ancient people of Corsica and Sardinia Corsi (statistic) , an advanced statistic in ice hockey Corsi (surname) , includes a list of people with the name Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Corsi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-481: A Ligurian woman who when grazing her cattle , went to the island, which then took her name. Pausanias in the Description of Greece wrote: A large part of the population, oppressed by civil strife, left it (Corsica) and came to Sardinia; there they took up their abode, confining themselves to the highlands. The Sardinians, however, call them by the name of Corsicans, which they brought with them from home [...] When
15-632: The Carthaginians were at the height of their sea power, they overcame all in Sardinia except the Ilians and Corsicans, who were kept from slavery by the strength of the mountains. This French history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Italian history article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an ethnic group in Europe
20-716: The Corsi probably belonged to the Ligurian people. Similar was also the opinion of Seneca , who claimed that the Corsi from Corsica, where he had then been staying in exile, were of mixed origin, resulting from the continuous mingling of various ethnic groups of foreign origin, like the Ligures, the Greeks and the Iberians . In the myth, reported by Sallust , the peopling of Corsica is traced back to Corsa,
25-427: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corsi&oldid=773185441 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Corsi people According to historian Ettore Pais and archeologist Giovanni Ugas,
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