in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian sea, opposite to Thesprotia a district of Epirus, called Scheria and Phaeacia by Homer. In Callimachus it is called Drepane; 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, one of the Ionian islands.

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 Phaeacians by Homer. Now Corfu, from the Kerkyra of the middle age, the name of the citadel. It was a colony of the Corinthians. Corcyraei, the people. E. Long. 19. 55. Lat. 39. 40.

CORCYRA Nigra, an island in the Adriatic, on the coast of Dalmatia (Pliny); called Melensa 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.