Cor·fu 
(kôrf, -fy, kôr-f) also Kér·ky·ra (kĕrkē-rä′) Formerly Cor·cy·ra (kôr-sīrə)
(kôrf, -fy, kôr-f) also Kér·ky·ra (kĕrkē-rä′) Formerly Cor·cy·ra (kôr-sīrə) An island of Greece in the Ionian Islands off the northwest coast of the mainland. Settled c. 700 BC, the island was controlled by Rome, Byzantium, Sicily, Venice, and Great Britain before being ceded to Greece in 1864.