Cargèse
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Cargèse Carghjese |
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| region | Corsica | |
| Department | Corse-du-Sud | |
| Arrondissement | Ajaccio | |
| Canton | Sevi-Sorru-Cinarca (main town) | |
| Community association | Spelunca Liamone | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 8 ′ N , 8 ° 36 ′ E | |
| height | 0-705 m | |
| surface | 45.99 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,325 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 29 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 20130 | |
| INSEE code | 2A065 | |
| Website | http://www.cargese.fr/ | |
 View of Cargèse and the Gulf of Sagone |
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Cargèse ( Corsican Carghjese ; Greek Καργκέζε) is a French municipality on the west coast of Corsica with 1,325 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), 50 km north of Ajaccio . Villages of the municipality are next to Cargèse Esigne, Sagone , Rocca Marina, Le Couvent, Marchese, Pancone, Rondolino and Lozzi.
history
prehistory
The first traces of settlement can be found in Cargèse from around 7000–6000 BC. Later the area was settled first by Iberians and then by Phoenicians. The Greeks founded the city of Aleria in 565, which came to the Roman Empire and was later ravaged by vandals and decayed.
Greek foundation
On March 14, 1676, three Genoese galleys with 800 Greek refugees landed near Paomia in Corsica. In 1729, during a general uprising of the Corsicans against Genoa, the Greek newcomers were expelled. In 1774 they were awarded the Cargèse area to compensate for the loss of their property in Paomia. They founded the present-day Cargèse here.
Some of the Greeks accepted the Roman Catholic rite, while the other part continued to follow the Greek Catholic, so that the place today has two churches: the Roman Catholic Resurrection Church, built in 1825–1828, and the Greek Catholic, built in 1852–1872 Saint-Spiridon church.
The Greek dialect of the refugees was researched by the Dutch scholar GH Blanken .
The Institut d'études scientifiques de Cargèse (IESC), a research institute founded on the initiative of the physicist Maurice Lévy , has existed in Cargèse since the 1960s .
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 665 | 753 | 889 | 998 | 915 | 982 | 1117 | 1319 |
Attractions
- Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic (Latin) Churches
- Ruins of the Cathedral of Sant'Appiano in Sagone
- Dolmen of Paomia
literature
- GH Blanken: Introduction à une étude du dialecte grec de Cargèse (Corse). Préliminaires - phonétique. AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1947 (Proefschrift). - dissertation.
- GH Blanken: Les Grecs de Cargèse, Corse. Research on leur langue et sur leur histoire. AW Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij, Leiden, 1951.
