The Etruscans and perhaps others in their turn occupied Alalia.

Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech.

Naval rams were first recorded in use at the battle of Alalia in 535 BC.

As Latin Alalia, it was the capital of the Roman province of Corsica.

The Greeks from Phocaea also founded settlements in the island of Corsica, such as at Alalia.

The Phocaeans also planted a colony in Alalia in Corsica around 562 BC.

Around 540 BC, the Battle of Alalia led to a new distribution of power in the western Mediterranean Sea.

Between 540 and 535 BC, a Carthaginian-Etruscan alliance had expelled the Greeks from Corsica after the Battle of Alalia.

The Carthaginians(phoenician colony), with the help of the Etruscans, conquered the greek colony of Alalia, on Corsica, in 535 BC.

This occurred during the First Punic War that pitted Rome against Carthage: the Etruscans and Carthaginians were traditional allies (see Battle of Alalia).

These included Alalia in Corsica, Emporiae and Rhoda in Spain, and especially Massalia (Marseille) in France.

Tartessos disappears suddenly, probably destroyed by the Carthaginians as revenge of the Tartessian alliance with the Greeks during the battle of Alalia, in the coast of Corsica.

The naval Battle of Alalia took place between 540 BC and 535 BC off the coast of Corsica between Greeks and the allied Etruscans and Carthaginians.

The Punic-Etruscan fleet of 120 ships was defeated by a Greek force of Phocean ships while emigrating to the western Mediterranean and the nearby colony of Alalia (now Aléria).

In 546 BC, Phocaeans fleeing from a Persian invasion established Alalia in Corsica (Greeks had settled there since 562 BC), and began preying on Etruscan and Punic commerce.

According to the ancient sources it was gradually abandoned after the battle of Alalia and the consequent collapse of the Phocaean Greek trade, which led the native inhabitants to shift their residence to the Phoenician-Punic Malaka.

Chetwynd, who was christened Alalia Chetwynd, is the daughter of Luciana Arrighi, an Oscar-winning production designer, and Rupert Chetwynd, a former soldier, author and aid worker in Afghanistan, who is a cousin of Viscount Chetwynd.

When the city of Phocaea itself fell to Cyrus the Great of Persia in 546 BC, most Phoceans moved to Alalia, partly because they were on good terms with the Greek colonies along the Strait of Messina and had even been granted toll-free passage.