Island
Insula Corsica
Corsica
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Insula Corsica carries its name in red and just a single town, Mariana, founded by Marius near the mouth of the Golo, although the Roman writer Pliny counted thirty-three towns on the island and a Roman register of routes lists five stations along its east coast. Insula simply means island, and the Greeks called it Kyrnos. Rugged and thickly wooded, Corsica was prized for timber, wax and a notoriously bitter honey, and it served as a place of exile, where the philosopher Seneca wrote gloomily of his banishment.