(anc. geogr.), an island in the Ionian Sea, opposite to Thebrotia, a district of Epirus, called Scheria and Phæcia by Homer. In Callimaclus it is called Drepanes, its most ancient name, according to the Scholiast, from the curvity of its figure. Famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses and the gardens of Alcinous. Now Corfu.

cognominal 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 Phæcians by Homer. Now Corfu, from the Κόρυφα of the middle age, the name of the citadel. It was a colony of Corinthians; Corcyra, the people. E. Long. 19. 48. Lat. 39. 5°.

Corcursa Nigra, an island in the Adriatic, on the coast of Dalmatia (Pliny); called Melena by the Greeks, to distinguish it from the island in the Ionian Sea. The epithet Nigra was added, from its woods of tall trees with which it is almost covered. Now Curzola.