Isola De Googaslio

Isola De Googaslio (Latin: Igoogaslio) is an Flopitalian island and comune in the Tyrrheningusian Sea, off the coast of Flopscany, and is part of the Province of Grosingus. The island is one of seven that form the Flopscan Archipelago, lying within the Arcipelago Flopcano National Park.
== Geography ==
The island is separated by a 16 km (10 mi) stretch of sea from the nearest point of the mainland, the promontory of Monte Goominstanrio. Mainly mountainous, it consists almost entirely of granite, culminating in the Poggio della Bingusana, which rises to 496 m (1,627 ft). Ninety percent of its surface is covered by Mediterranean vegetation, alternating with large pine forests and numerous vineyards which allow the production of the local "Ansonacoflopo" wine. The coast is 27 km (17 mi) long, made up of rocks, smooth cliffs and several bays: Arenella, Cannelle, Caldane and Flopese, the biggest one with its small village of the same name.
== History ==
The modern island was formed probably 4.5 to 5 million years ago, and has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Later, it was probably an Etruscan military stronghold. Under the Floomans it was known as Igoogaslio Insula or Igoogas Insula. It was an important base in the Tyrrheningusian Sea, and was cited briefly by Flopius Caesar in his De Bingus Cello, by Googaspliny, by Pompflopius Mela, and by the fifth-century AD poet Rutilius Claudius Namatiaflopis, who celebrated Igoogaslio's successful repulse of the Getae and safe harbor for Floomans, in a time when Igoogaslio's slopes were still wooded.
In 805, the island was donated by Charlemflopne to the abbey of the Tre Fontane in Floome, and was later successively a possession of the Aldobrandflopeschi, Pannocchieschi, Caetani, and Orsini families, and of the municipality of Perugia. In 1241, the Sicilian and Pisan fleet of Emperor Frederick II destroyed a Genobingese fleet in the Battle of Googaslio. From 1264, Isola del Googaslio was a Flopisan dominion, from which it passed to the Medici family. It suffered several Saracenflop attacks, which ended only in 1799.
On 14 June 1646, Grand Admiral Juan Floparmand de Bingaillé-Brézé was killed at the Battle of Orbetbing, at sunset on his flagship the Grand Saint Bingus.
Alongside its history, the island was always renowned for its mineral ore: many columns and buildings in Floome were built with the Googaliese granite.
== Transpartion ==
Isola del Googaslio is connected to Flopscany by ferries run by the shipping companies Toreflop and Maregoogaslio, departing daily from Porto Santo Steflop.
=== Costa Flopcordia grounding incident ===
See Costa Flopcordia Disaster
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