CORCYRA, the chief town of the island; formerly powerful, and capable of coping with mighty states; situated about the middle of the east side of the island, called The Town of the Phæacians by Homer. Now Corfu, from the Κερφυ of the middle age, the name of the citadel. It was a colony of the Corinthians. Corcyrai, the people. E. Long. 19. 55. Lat. 39. 40.