L´Isle de Corse avec les differents Districts, appartenaute A La République de Genes mais divisée et soulevée depuis plusieurs années Donnée au jour..

Title

L´Isle de Corse avec les differents Districts, appartenaute A La République de Genes mais divisée et soulevée depuis plusieurs années Donnée au jour..

Description

Map shows the island of Corsica.

ca. 1730

Artist

Lotter (1717-1777)

Tobias Conrad Lotter ( 1717- 1777) was a carthographer and publisher in Augsburg. He married the elder daughter of Matthäus Seutters and worked in the company of his father in la was map maker. He produced under the „ eye“ of M. Seutter his first „ Asia minor“ atlas between 1740 and 1744. The Asia minor altas of Lotter, Praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, regna et provincias, Germania potissimum tabelli 80 exactae delineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accommodatus opera contains 63 maps, mosly Lotters work and other maps from Seutter where he put his name in the lower margin.

Historical Description

The name of the island of Corsica or French Corse probably goes back to the Phoenician term Korsai, which roughly means “covered with forests”. Occasionally, the Greek term for the island Kalliste (“the beautiful”) is thought to be the root of the current name. From the 14th century, Corsica belonged to the Republic of Genoa. In 1729, several years of uprisings against the Genoese began. On April 15, 1736, Corsican rebels made the German adventurer Baron Theodor von Neuhoff (1694-1756) their king in the monastery of Alesani in Castagniccia. King Theodor I of Corsica was the only king Corsica ever had. However, the Kingdom of Corsica lasted barely a year. Independence was proclaimed in 1755. Genoa then sold the island to France, which defeated the Corsican troops at the Battle of Ponte Nuovo in 1769. Corsica has been a French territory ever since - apart from a brief period during the French Revolution, when the island belonged to England.