AJACCIO

Specialty Definition: Ajaccio

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Ajaccio , (Corsican: Aiacciu) is a French city, préfecture (capital) of the département of Corse-du-Sud and, since 1810 capital of the region of Corsica. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island, 210 m. southeast of Marseille. Population: 19,021 (1906).

Ajaccio occupies a sheltered position at the foot of wooded hills on the northern shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio. The harbour, lying to the east of the town, is protected on the south by a peninsula which carries the citadel and terminates in the Citadel jetty; to the south-west of this peninsula lies the Place Bonaparte, a quarter frequented chiefly by winter visitors attracted by the mild climate of the town. Apart from one or two fine thoroughfares converging on the Place Bonaparte, the streets are mean and narrow and the town has a deserted appearance.

The house in which Napoleon I, was born in 1769 is preserved, and his associations with the town are everywhere emphasized by street-names and statues. The other buildings, including the cathedral of the 16th century, are of little interest.

The town is the seat of a bishopric dating at least from the 7th century. It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, training colleges, a communal college, a museum and a library; the three latter are established in the Palais Fesch, founded by Cardinal Fesch, who was born at Ajaccio in 1763.

Ajaccio has a small manufacturing economy of cigars, macaroni, and similar products, and carries on shipbuilding, sardine-fishing and coral-fishing. Its exports include timber, citrons, skins, chestnuts and gallic acid. The port is accessible by the largest ships, but its accommodation is indifferent. In 1904 there entered 603 vessels with a tonnage of 202,980, and cleared 608 vessels with a tonnage of 202,502.

The present town of Ajaccio lies about two miles to the south of its original site, from which it was transferred by the Genoese in 1492. Occupied from 1553 to 1559 by the French, it again fell to the Genoese after the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in the latter year. The town finally passed to the French in 1768.

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Books	Michelin Corse-Du-Sud, Haute-Corse: Includes Plans for Ajaccio, Sartene, Bastia, Calvi, Corte (reference) (more book examples)
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	Chapel Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica. Credit: Library of Congress.		Baptismal font in the church at Ajaccio where Napoleon was baptized. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: AJACCIO

"AJACCIO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AJACCIO" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

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Anagrams: AJACCIO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-j-o"
	-2 letters: cacao.
	-3 letters: caca, ciao, coca, jiao.
	-4 letters: oca.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, jo.
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