missioner. The British commissioners, who
were practically autocrats in spite of the retention of the native
senate and assembly, introduced a strict method of government which
brought about a decided improvement in the material prosperity of the
island, but by its very strictness displeased the natives. In 1864 it
was, with the other Ionian Islands, ceded to the kingdom of Greece, in
accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants. The island has again
become an important point of call and has a considerable trade in olive
oil; under a more careful system of tillage the value of its
agricultural products might be largely increased.

Corfu contains very few and unimportant remains of antiquity. The site
of the ancient city of Corcyra ([Greek: Kerkyra]) is well ascertained,
about 1-1/2 m. to the south-east of Corfu, upon the narrow piece of ground
between the sea-lake of Calichiopulo and the Bay of Castrades, in each
of which it had a port. The circular tomb of Menecrates, with its
well-known inscription, is on the Bay of Castrades. Under the hill of
Ascension are the remains of a temple, popularly called of Neptune, a
very simple Doric structure, which still in its mutilated state presents
some peculiarities of architecture. Of Cassiope, the only other city of
ancient importance, the name is still preserved by the village of
Cassopo, and there are some rude remains of building on the site; but
the temple of Zeus Cassius for which it was celebrated has totally
disappeared. Throughout the island there are numerous monasteries and
other buildings of Venetian erection, of which the best known are
Paleocastrizza, San Salvador and Pelleka.

AUTHORITIES.--Strabo vi. p. 269; vii. p. 329; Herodotus viii. 168;
Thucydides i.-iii.; Xenophon, _Hellenica_, vi. 2; Polybius ii. 9-11;
Plutarch, _Quaestiones Graecae_, ch. xi.; H. Jervis, _The Ionian
Islands during the Present Century_ (London, 1863); D. F. Ansted, _The
Ionian Islands in the Year 1863_ (London, 1863); Riemann, _Recherches
archeologiques sur les Iles ioniennes_ (Paris, 1879-1880); J. Partsch,
_Die Insel Korfu_ (Gotha, 1887); B. Schmidt, _Korkyraische Studien_
(Leipzig, 1890); B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), pp.
275-277; H. Lutz in _Philologus_, 56 (1897), pp. 71-77; also art.
NUMISMATICS: Greek, S "Epirus." (E. GR.; M. O. B. C.)

CORI (anc. _Cora_), a town and episcopal see of the province of Rome,
Italy, 36 m. S.E. by rail from