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Corsica ( ___MASK57___ and Italian : " Corsica " ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 13 regions of France . It is located west of the Italian Peninsula , southeast of the French mainland , and north of the Italian island of Sardinia . Mountains make up two - thirds of the island , forming a single chain . Marcus Musurus ( ___MASK96___ :   Markos Mousouros ; Italian : Marco Musuro ; c . 1470 -- 1517 ) was a ___MASK96___ scholar and philosopher born in Retimo , Castello , Venetian Crete ( modern Rethymno , Crete ) . Crete ("" ; ___MASK74___ : , " Krt ") is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands , 88th - largest island in the world and the fifth - largest island in the Mediterranean Sea , after Sicily , Sardinia , Cyprus , and Corsica . Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete , one of the 13 top - level administrative units of Greece . The capital and the largest city is Heraklion . , the region had a population of 623 , 065 . ___MASK74___ includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD . It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BC ), Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BC ), and Hellenistic period ( 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD ). It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek . Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It constitutes an autonomous Region of Italy , along with surrounding minor islands , officially referred to as " Regione Siciliana " ( in ___MASK78___ , Sicilian Region ). Sardinia ( / , Sassarese : " Sardhigna ", Gallurese : " Saldigna ", ___MASK93___ : " Sardenya ", Tabarchino : " Sardegna ") is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea ( after Sicily and before Cyprus ) and an autonomous region of Italy . It is located in the Western Mediterranean , just south of the French island of Corsica .