one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: 247 sq mi (640 sq km)
its chief city, a seaport: pop. 37,000
See Corfu in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kôrˈfo͞o, -fyo͞o, kôr-fo͞oˈ) also Kér·ki·ra(kĕrˈkē-räˌ) Formerly Cor·cy·ra(kôr-sīˈrə)
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.