a seaport-town of Corsica, on an elevated peninsula in a gulf of the same name. N. Lat. 42° 34'. E., Long. 8° 44'. Calvi is furnished with a good and well-sheltered harbour, but its trade has greatly decayed, part of it having been transferred to Isola Rossa on the N.E. The citadel is a place of great strength, and under the Genoese, held out for 51 days against the English in 1794. Pop. of the arrondissement of Calvi, 24,390; of the town, 1750.