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Corcyra is Latin for Corfu, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

Corfu Place in Greece

Corfu or Kerkyra is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the northwesternmost part of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality, which also includes the smaller islands of Ereikoussa, Mathraki and Othonoi. The municipality has an area of 610,9 km2, the island proper 592,8 km2. The principal city of the island and seat of the municipality is also named Corfu. Corfu is home to the Ionian University.

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Corcyra or Korkyra may also refer to:

In Greek mythology, Corcyra or Korkyra was the daughter of the Asopos river and the nymph Metope. According to myth Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, kidnapped her and brought her to a hitherto unnamed island and offered her name to the place: Korkyra or the now-modern Kerkyra. Together they had a child Phaiax after whom the inhabitants of the island, Phaiakes, were named; their name was later transliterated in Latinate orthography to Phaeacians.

Places

Korkyra (polis)

Korkyra was an ancient Greek city on the island of Corfu in the Ionian sea, adjacent to Epirus. It was a colony of Corinth, founded in the archaic period. According to Thucydides, the earliest recorded naval battle took place between Korkyra and Corinth, roughly 260 years before he was writing - and thus in the middle of the seventh century BC. He also writes that Korkyra was one of the three great naval powers in fifth century BC Greece, along with Athens and Corinth.

Corcyre was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece. It came into existence after Napoleon's conquest in 1797 of the Republic of Venice, when Venetian Greek possessions such as the Ionian islands fell to the French Directory. It consisted of the island of Kerkyra (Corfu), and its prefecture was in the City of Corfu. The island was lost to Russia after the Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) and the department was officially disbanded in 1802. During the renewed French control in 1807–1814, the department was not re-established, the constitutional form of the former Septinsular Republic being kept.

Korčula island in Croatia

Korčula (Croatian: [kɔ̂ːrtʃula] is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It has an area of 279 km2 ; 46.8 km long and on average 7.8 km wide — and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 15,522 inhabitants make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk and the most populous Croatian island not connected to the mainland by a bridge. The population are almost entirely ethnic Croats. The island is twinned with Rothesay in Scotland.

Insects

Rice moth species of insect

The rice moth is a moth of the family Pyralidae. This small moth can become a significant pest. Its caterpillars feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds, including cereals. Other recorded foods are flour and dried fruits.

Corcyra nidicolella is a species of snout moth in the genus Corcyra. It was described by Rebel in 1914, and is known from Egypt.

<i>Corcyra</i> (moth) genus of insects

Corcyra is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Ragonot in 1885, and is known from China, Great Britain, Australia, and Egypt.

Horses

Cleopatra was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. The filly's sire was the one of Great Britain's top stallions Corcyra, a son of three-time the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland Polymelus. Her dam was Gallice, a daughter of Gallinule. Cleopatra is probably best remembered for her easy victory in the second running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes on May 17, 1920.

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