The history of Corsica in the medieval period begins with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of various Germanic peoples in the fifth century AD, and ends with the complete subjection of the island to the authority of the Bank of San Giorgio in 1511. == Eastern Imperial suzerainty == === Barbarians and Byzantines === In the early decades of the fifth century, effective Roman authority all but vanished from Corsica.
The history of Corsica in the medieval period begins with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of various Germanic peoples in the fifth century AD, and ends with the complete subjection of the island to the authority of the Bank of San Giorgio in 1511. == Eastern Imperial suzerainty == === Barbarians and Byzantines === In the early decades of the fifth century, effective Roman authority all but vanished from Corsica.
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