Cap Corse
Cap Corse (; , ; , ), a geographical area of Corsica, is a long peninsula located at the northern tip of the island. At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia. Cap Corse is also a Communauté de communes comprising 18 communes. The area of the Communauté de communes is 305.7 km2, and its population was 6,706 in 2019. The communes Starting on the west side and working north around the peninsula the communes are: Olmeta-di-Capocorso Nonza Olcani Ogliastro Canari Barrettali Pino Morsiglia Centuri Ersa Rogliano Tomino Meria Luri Cagnano Pietracorbara Sisco Brando The canton of Cap Corse is slightly larger, and also includes the communes Farinole, Patrimonio, San-Martino-di-Lota and Santa-Maria-di-Lota. History Numerous historians have termed Cap Corse "the Sacred Promontory" and have gone so far as to suppose the name came from a high concentration of early Christian settlements. This is a folk etymology. The term comes from the geographer Ptolemy, who called his first and northernmost location on Corsica the hieron akron in ancient Greek, translated by the Romans as sacrum promontorium. This is not the only point of land to be so called; there were many others in the classical world,