Corfu' (Kerkyra). Island and Greek name of the sea Jonio. To the breadth of her Albanian costs, from which it separates it the channel of Corfu'. Is constituted from rocks cretaciche, giurassiche and triassiche, with formations of the Mesozoico and terrestrial of the Tertiary, culminating in the 914 ms of the mountain Pantokrátor and runs from brief rivers to torrential character, the more important of which is the Messonghi. It has a surface of 638 kmqs and it counts ca. 120.000 ab. The climate is typically Mediterranean.

They cultivate you oil you, grapevines, fig trees, citrus fruit and cereals; scarce the breeding of the livestock. The chief town same give name, placed to east of the island, it is center of production and marketing of oil and soap. Preserve between the monuments you stay of the old boundaries, the sculptural rests of an archaic pediment, the necropolis, the medieval fortifications and the modern villa dell ' Achilleo, already of the ruling houses of Austria and Germany. The most ancient churches are those of S. Corcira, reported to the IV sec., and of the SS. Giasone and Sosipatro of the XII sec.