Morosaglia

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Morosaglia}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Morosaglia |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Morosaglia-Eglise-3.jpg |caption = Convento in Morosaglia |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Morosaglia (Haute-Corse).svg |native name = Merusaglia |arrondissement = Corte |canton = Golo-Morosaglia |INSEE = 2B169 |postal code = 20218 |mayor = Vincent Cognetti<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020–2026 |population demonym = Merusaglincu, Merusaglinca (Corsican)<br/> Morosagliese (Italian) |intercommunality = |coordinates = {{coord|42.433|9.317|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 860 |elevation min m = 182 |elevation max m = 1249 |area km2 = 24 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Morosaglia''' ({{IPA|it|moˈrozaʎʎa}}; {{IPA|fr|mɔʁoza(l)ja|lang}}; {{langx|co|Merusaglia|link=no}}, {{IPA|co|mɛˈruzaʎʎa|}}) is a [[communes of France|commune]] in the [[Haute-Corse]] [[departments of France|department]], on the island of [[Corsica]], France. Since 2015, it is the seat of the canton of [[canton of Golo-Morosaglia|Golo-Morosaglia]].<ref name=decret>{{cite web|url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028664269|title=Décret n° 2014-255 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Haute-Corse | Legifrance|access-date=2017-05-31}}</ref>

==History== [[File:Corsica Pasquale Paoli Tomba Morosaglia.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The tomb of Pasquale Paoli in his house of birth]] Morosaglia is the native commune of [[Pasquale Paoli]] (1725-1807). The house in which he was born is a museum. This commune also is the historical seat of the [[Corsican Republic]]. Paoli had his chambers in the [[Franciscan]] monastery and the Corsican parliament met there.<ref name=greg>{{cite book|first=Ferdinand|last=Gregorovius|others=Edward Joy Morris (trans.)|title=Corsica: Picturesque, Historical, and Social: with a Sketch of the Early Life of Napoleon and an account of the Bonaparte, Paoli, Pozzo di Borgo, and other principal families|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0s_8wiPTiE0C|publisher=Parry & M'Millan|year=1855|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0s_8wiPTiE0C/page/n278 278]}}</ref>

==Geography== Morosaglia is {{convert|40|km}} to the northeast of [[Corte, Haute-Corse|Corte]] in Castagniccia. The commune extends to the east to the largest mountain of Castagniccia, mounting to {{convert|1230|m}} to the peak of San Paolu, and stretches to the west for {{convert|13|km|0}} beyond the river Golo.

In the plain of the river, nearly at its confluence with the Asco, on the Bastia-Ajaccio road, is the hamlet of Ponte-Leccia, where the only railway branch of the entire island is located, the branch to [[Calvi, Haute-Corse|Calvi]]. The statisticians have given the name of Ponte-Leccia to a microregion of 3,800 people and {{convert|563|km2}}, which approximates the ancient parish of Caccia and the canton.

==Population== {{Historical populations |align=left| 1962|550| 1968|694| 1975|750| 1982|854| 1990|883| 1999|1008| 2008|1072 }} {{clear left}}

== See also == * [[Ponte Leccia]] * [[Communes of the Haute-Corse department]] * [[Julien Giovannetti]] (1914–1966), [[baritone]] born in Morosaglia.

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[[Category:Communes of Haute-Corse]] [[Category:Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia]]