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BONIFACIO , a maritime See also:town at the See also:southern extremity of See also:Corsica, in the See also:arrondissement of Sartene, 87 m. S.S.E. of See also:Ajaccio by road. Pop. (1906) 2940. Bonifacio, which overlooks the straits of that name separating Corsica from See also:Sardinia, occupies a remarkable situation on the See also:summit of a See also:peninsula of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white calcareous See also:rock, extending parallel to the See also:coast and enclosing a narrow and secure See also:harbour. Below the town and in the cliffs facing it the rock is hollowed into caverns accessible only by See also:boat.
St See also:Dominic, a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church built in the 13th See also:century by the See also:Templars, and the See also:cathedral of See also:Santa Maria See also:Maggiore which belongs mainly to the 12th century, are the See also:chief buildings. The fortifications and citadel date from the 16th and 17th centuries. A massive See also:medieval See also:tower serves as a See also:powder-See also:magazine. The See also:trade of Bonifacio, which is carried on chiefly with Sardinia, is in cereals, See also:wine, See also:cork and See also:olive-oil of See also:fine quality. Cork-cutting, See also:tobacco-manufacture and See also:coral-fishing are carried on. The olive is largely cultivated in the neighbourhood and there are oil-See also:works in the town.
Bonifacio was founded about 828 by the Tuscan See also:marquis whose name it bears, as a See also:defence against the Saracen pirates. At the end of the 11th century it became subject to See also:Pisa, and at the end of the 12th was taken and colonized by the Genoese, whose See also:influence may be traced in the See also:character of the See also:population. In 1420 it heroically withstood a protracted See also:siege by See also:Alphonso V. of See also:Aragon. In 1554 it See also:fell into the hands of the Franco-See also:Turkish See also:army.
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