Aléria

Aleria ( Corsican: Aleria ) is a commune with 2129 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) on the island of Corsica. It lies on a plateau, about in the middle of the east coast of the island, at the mouth of Tagnone in the Tavignano, the short time you reach the Mediterranean Sea.

History

At the site of the Old and New Stone Age dwelling places built by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 565 BC, a branch under the name Alalia ( Ἀλαλίη, in Herodotus Ἀλλαλία ). After the expulsion from her on the coast of Asia Minor, between the Gulf of Elaea and the nearby Smyrna hometown by the Persians (546 BC), many Phocaeans settled in Corsica Alalia. As part of this immigration several shrines were built, including probably a sanctuary of Artemis. The inhabitants of the city -operated in part as pirates and so did the waters unsure of what the trading power of Carthage and the Etruscans mustered against them. In a joint action, the Greeks were defeated in a naval battle against Alalia 540 BC. Then they had to leave the city and settled in the Campanian Elea. Now Alalia was etruskisiert.

The Etruscans ruled the town until the 3rd century BC When the Romans broke the supremacy of the Etruscans, including Corsica Alalia for a short time Carthaginian protectorate. 259 BC the city of Lucius Cornelius Scipio during the First Punic War was conquered. With the founding of the colony Sardinia et Corsica, the city was finally Roman. Sulla founded in the city of the Roman colony colonia Aleria. According to plans Caius Julius Caesar, the colony was re- built by the legion III of Octavian 36-27 BC. Now called the colony Colonia Julia Veneria Pacensis Restituta Tertianorum Aleria. After the creation of the province of Corsica, the city was the seat of the provincial administrator. In the harbor a division of classis Milenensis was stationed. Equipped with an ordo decurionum city was managed in the Roman Empire of duumviri. Bear witness is also a Flaminat and in the late imperial period a principalis coloniae Aleriae.

In the city of Aleria an ancient, classical and Hellenistic embossed necropolis was found. In the south, in Casabiada, you can still find remnants of the city walls, the amphitheater and the trapezoidal forum including Capitol and the Praetorium of the Governor.

The city survived probably due to their size and importance as a diocese seat 591 since the time of Gregory the Great was next to Ajaccio Aleria and Sagona one of three Corsican bishoprics. He had 601 occupy the remaining vacant long post again. The history of the next 200 years lies in the darkness. It was only for the year of the Arab destruction of a bishop is attested again. 1092 the Corsican bishoprics were reorganized by Pope Gregory VII and Pisa assumed as the new metropolitan authority. 1133 the territory of the diocese of Genoa pressure back and forth between the two cities was divided, Aleria remained at Pisa. The Diocese of Aleria included 18 pievi called parishes. Multiple of the bishop's seat was entrusted during reform phases by popes Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians or. In the late Middle Ages, the bishops moved their seat of Aleria after Cervione.

Economy

The municipal area controlled designation of origin (AOC ) for Brocciu, Honey ( Miel de Corse - Mele di Corsica ) apply olive oil ( Huile d' olive de Corse - Oliu di Corsica ) and wine (Vin de Corse or Corsica blanc, rosé and rouge ) and protected geographical indications ( PGI ) for clementines ( Clémentine de Corse) and wine (Ile de Beauté blanc, rosé or rouge and Méditerranée blanc, rosé and rouge ). In Aleria since 1976 Corsica 's largest wine producers' association established the Union des Vignerons de l' Ile de Beauté.