History of Corsica
The history of Corsica goes back to antiquity, and was known to Herodotus, who described Phoenician habitation in the 6th century BC. Etruscans and Carthaginians expelled the Ionian Greeks, and remained until the Romans arrived during the Punic Wars in 237 BC. Vandals occupied it in 430 AD, followed by the Byzantine Empire a century later. Raided by various Germanic and other groups for two centuries, it was conquered in 774 by Charlemagne under the Holy Roman Empire, which fought for control against the Saracens.