Musée d'archéologie d'Aléria
Fort de Matra, 20270 Aléria
MUSEE D'ALERIA. ALALIA: 8000 YEARS OF HISTORY The tabular plateau located in the heart of the eastern plain of Corsica, not far from the sea, and dominating by a peak the river Tavignano, is inhabited by man since the ancient Neolithic. Around 565 BC, the Phocaeans, who are Greeks settled in the Gulf of Smyrna, founded a counter at Alalia which became their metropolis and thus made Corsica enter the history. Thirty years later, after a naval battle opposing them to an Etruscan-Punic coalition, a large part of the Phocaeans leave the island: some take refuge in Massalia (Marseilles), which is another of their colonies, others will found a new one, Elee, south of the Gulf of Naples. Successively, Etruscans, Carthaginians and Romans will be interested in Corsica. In 259 BC, Cornelius Scipion, at the beginning of the wars between Rome and Carthage, seizes Alalia which will become Aléria. For 7 centuries, Corsica will undergo the Roman domination that will mark it deeply. Aléria will become
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Musée, salle d'exposition, Site archéologique, Monument historique
