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12 unusual facts about Corfu


Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta

Here he joined the expedition to Corfu, from which he did not return to Italy till 1798.

Dély Ibrahim

Those soldiers were from the island of Corfu and Vido transported for further treatment in the Allied military hospital in North Africa.

Faiakes

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit.

Giannades

Giannades is located 13 km west of the city of Corfu and 7 km southeast of Palaiokastritsa.

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier

Afterwards, he served as a naturalist on a 6-year scientific journey that took him to Asia Minor, Persia, Egypt, Cyprus and Corfu.

MV Ancona

Knossos was laid up until March 1996, when she started sailing on the PatrasIgoumenitsaCorfuAncona service.

Nikola Pašić

The Government and the army retreated to the south in the direction of Greece, but were cut off by Bulgarian forces and had to go through Albania and to the Greek island of Corfu where the Corfu Declaration was signed in 1917 preparing the ground for the future South Slav state of Yugoslavia.

Palace of St. Michael and St. George

Up to 1967, the Greek king occasionally used the palace on state occasions while in residence at his nearby villa, Mon Repos.

Pseudobithynia renei

The type locality is (in French language) "Marais de Cressida près Corfou", Corfu, Greece.

Religion in Greece

The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 7,500 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki, Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala and Corfu, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes.

Sfakera

Sfakera, is a village, on the north coast of the island of Corfu, Greece.

Sophie Atkinson

At the turn of the century Atkinson lived in Corfu; the result was the book An Artist in Corfu, published in 1911, which she wrote and illustrated with her own watercolours.


Andreas Moustoxydis

He studied at Pavia, and in 1804 published a treatise on the history of Corfu titled Notizie per servire alla storia Corcirese dai tempi eroici al secolo XII.

Arsenius

Saint Arsenius of Corfu, first bishop of Corfu, (d. 800 AD or perhaps 959 AD) one of the principal patron saints of Corfu

Carl Haller von Hallerstein

In June 1810 he accompanied Jakob Linkh (1786–1841), Peter Oluf Brøndsted (1780-1842), Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1787–1837) and Georg Koës (1782-1811) to Athens, via Naples, Corfu and Corinth.

Christoforos Perraivos

However, Ypsilantis, resolved to begin the revolution in March 1821, sent Perraivos to Epirus to coordinate with the Souliotes and other captains whom he knew from Corfu.

Communion token

Tokens were also issued by Presbyterian churches in Corfu, Florence, Madeira, Port Louis, Bombay, Cochin, Berbice, Demerara and Kingston, Jamaica.

Corcyre

Corcyre (old-fashioned French for Corfu) was one of three short-lived French départements in present Greece.

Corfu Declaration

In 1916, the Serbian Parliament in exile decided the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at a meeting inside the Municipal Theatre of Corfu, Greece.

Corfu incident

In Corfu during the first quarter of the 20th century, many Italian operas were performed at the Municipal Theatre of Corfu.

Donatus of Evorea

Saint Donatus of Butrint died in 387 and his remains were transferred to Kassiopi in Corfu in 602 in order to be saved from barbarian invasions.

French battleship France

After the French occupied the neutral Greek island of Corfu in 1916 they moved forward to Corfu and Argostoli, but their activities were very limited as many of their crews were used to man anti-submarine ships.

Georgios Theotokis

As a Mayor of Corfu Georgios Theotokis approved construction for the Municipal Theatre of Corfu in 1885.

Heinrich Heine

A Heine statue, originally located near Empress Elisabeth's palace in Corfu, was later rejected by Hamburg, but eventually found a home in Toulon.

High School of Kassiopi

The High School of Kassiopi (Γυμνάσιο Κασσιόπης με Λυκειακές Τάξεις), also known as Lyceum of Kassiopi or Gymnasio of Kassiopi is a state-run public high school in the town of Kassiopi on the affluent north-east coast of Corfu, Greece.

History of the Jews in Greece

The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 8,000 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki (or Salonica), Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala and Corfu, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes.

Israel Moses Hazan

In Rome and in Corfu he was held in high esteem, and the poet Ludwig August von Frankl, who saw him in Corfu (1856), speaks in glowing terms of his venerable personality.

Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg

He was recruited by Venice into the successful defence of Corfu during the 1716 siege against the invading Ottoman Turks; he was decorated by the Serenissima for his outstanding success with a statue and a pension of 5000 ducats a year.

Canaletto painted a view of Corfu, the site of his victories.

Kemal Reis

From there Kemal Reis set sail and bombarded the Venetian ports on the island of Corfu, and in August 1500 he once again defeated the Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon which is also known as the Second Battle of Lepanto.

Mathieu de Lesseps

He served as inspector general in Livorno and as imperial commissioner, under General François-Xavier Donzelot, in Corfu from May 1810 until June 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars, as the British blockaded Corfu in the midst of the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814.

Michele Sanmicheli

Like Jacopo Sansovino he was a salaried official of the Republic of Venice, but unlike Sansovino, his commissions lay in Venetian territories outside Venice; he was no less distinguished as a military architect, and was employed in strengthening Venetian fortifications in Crete, Candia, Dalmatia and Corfu as well as a great fort at the Lido, guarding the sea entrance to the Venetian lagoon.

Palaiokastritsa

Corfu has been suggested to be the mythical island of the Phaeacians, and the bay of Palaiokastritsa to be the place where Odysseus disembarked and met Nausicaa for the first time, see Geography of the Odyssey.

Pericles A. Sakellarios

He remodeled the Royal palace of Tatoi, Royal palace of Psychiko and Mon Repos in Corfu.

Postal codes in Greece

Postal codes beginning with the digits between 100 and 180 are used for the city of Athens; the beginning sequences 180 to 199 are used for other parts of the prefecture of Attica, with the exception of Corfu and Rhodes.

Yannis Spiteris

Yannis Spiteris (born August 27, 1940 in Corfu, Greece) is the current Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia.