Corfu (grc)

Corfu

Corfu ranks 1,436th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Burnley, Jesenice, and Culiacán. The most famous people from Corfu are Philomena, Ioannis Kapodistrias, and Michael Glykas. The most famous people who died in Corfu are George Sphrantzes, Dionysios Solomos, and Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Corfu has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many religious figures, and writers. Corfu is located in Greece.

Corfu or Kerkyra is one of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, and is separated by the Straits of Corfu from the mainland of Greece and Albania. It is the northernmost island on Greece's west coast except for its satellite Diapontian Islands, which are also the westernmost point of all Greece. Corfu and the Diapontian Islands mark the International Hydrographic Organization border between the Ionian Sea to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the north. Within the Ionian Islands region, the regional unit of Corfu extends as far south as the Paxoi. The capital and largest city of the regional unit is also named Corfu. Read more on Wikipedia