Cor·fu  (kôr'fōō, -fyōō, kôr-fōō')  An island of Greece in the Ionian Islands off the northwest coast of the mainland. Settled c. 700 B.C., the island was controlled by Rome, Byzantium, Sicily, Venice, and Great Britain before being ceded to Greece in 1864. |
| Kér·ki·ra (kěr'kē-rä') See Corfu. |