Sardinia and Corsica in 218 B.C.

Sardinia and Corsica — Roman Republic › Provinces (Provinciae).

Seized from Carthage in 237 BC amid the Mercenary War — a stroke Polybius judged contrary to justice — and organised as a province in 227 BC under a second new praetor. The fertile coasts yielded grain, but the mountainous interior was a perennial theatre of revolt by the Sardi and Corsi, a grievance Carthage never forgot.