Ajaccio
Proper noun
Meaning
Ajaccio
The capital and largest city of Corsica, France.
Examples
Ajaccio is the French city which holds the record for the number of thunderstorms in the reference period 1971-2000 with an average of 39 thunderstorm days per year.
Ajaccio gives the image of a city built on two different levels.
Cantons 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 are located along the Gulf of Ajaccio from west to east, while 4 and 5 are a little further up the valleys of the Gravona and the Prunelli Rivers.
General Charles de Gaulle went to Ajaccio on 8 October 1943 and said: "We owe it to the field of battle the lesson of the page of history that was written in French Corsica.
In 1811 he made Ajaccio the capital of the new Department of Corsica.
In general language, "greater Ajaccio" includes about 100,000 people with all the medical, educational, utility and transportational facilities of a big city.