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Corfu Island is one of the Ionian Islands. Corfu covers an area of 580 square kilometers, population: 107.87. It is the 2nd~largest island in the Ionian Islands, Corfu and the mainland across the insulation. This island is the site of the Ionian University. United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip was born on this island.
Corfu Island once was the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and governance by the people of Genoa and Venice. Republic of Venice ruled the island from 1401. Corfu Island is said "Venice Portal". Turkey repeated aggression against the island. Like 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716 Turkey Navy and army had laid siege to the island, but all end in failure. Corfu Island could be considered a bastion of resistance to Western civilization.
In 1864, Britain, France, Russia and Greece signed the Treaty of London, to return sovereignty over the Ionian Islands, Corfu Island to Greece. Corfu Island today is a popular tourist attraction. In 2007, the island city of Kerkira on international cultural monuments and historic sites of the old town was designated as a world cultural heritage Committee recommended.
Corfu Island, located near the kaifalaniya fault, an earthquake~prone area (Cephalonia was its Center).Nevertheless, the city on the island and the country still retains many traditional buildings built during the 16th century.
Corfu island coastline length of 217 kilometers (135 miles), its northeastern coastline with Albania Saranda, composed of many 3-23 km (2-15 miles) Strait separating; while the South-Eastern coast of the island and Greece North.
Corfu this name is Italy, transliterated from the Byzantine Κορυφώ, meaning "mountain city", derived from Greece Κορυφα (peak, a mountain), is more mountainous in the North of the island, Middle relief, was lying in the South. Gurkha Palace of Achilles (Greece language: Αχίλλειο) is located in Greece Corfu island in the Northwest, is Austria empress Cici under Austria consular yalishanda·Feng · Watzberg proposed [1] a summer palace. This summer palace use Greek mythology hero Achilles as a central theme.
In 1889, Prince Rudolph, cici's only son, committed suicide. A year later, in 1890 she built a summer palace ,10 km south of the city of Kerkira.Cici immersed in Greece culture, her Greece language even better than with the era of Greece Queen.
Ah~Gurkha Palace of Achilles by Italy architect Raffaele Caritto design.Garden Centre is Germany sculptors Kerala Ensite·gusitafu·he de-author of the dying Achilles, inspired Greece myths.
Gurkha Palace of Achilles on Kabul was filled with paintings and sculptures of Achilles and the Trojan War scenes, style of Pompeii, with the Russian Crimea, few Asian Gigi Riva has many similarities
At the peak of the Royal Garden, you can see the green of the surrounding hills and valleys, as well as breathtaking views of the Ionian.
Cici often came Gurkha Achilles Palace until 1898 in Geneva. Italy anarchist luyiji·luqieni assassination.Cici's death, Germany by Emperor Wilhelm II in 1907 from her heirs bought Gurkha Palace of Achilles, as his summer palace.
During this period William has conducted many diplomatic activities, Gurkha Achilles Palace became a hub of European diplomacy.
Wilhelm II commissioned the sculptor yuehanneisi·geci created a statue in the garden more large Gurkha Achilles bronze sculpture, North-oriented city.
Wilhelm II often come to Kerala holiday at the Achilles, info~city watched the performance at the theatre until 1914, when the outbreak of the first world war. During the first world war, Gurkha Palace of Achilles was France and Serbia army as a military hospital.
After the war, as war reparations in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles became Greece national property.
In between world war I and World War II, Gurkha Palace of Achilles for a variety of government services, at the same time too many auctions of cultural relics. During the second world war, the axis powers military headquarters in Kabul: Achilles.
After the second world war, Gurkha Palace of Achilles by the Greece tourism organizations. In 1962, leased to a private company at the Gurkha Achilles, to casinos at the top, and down into a museum.1983 the lease expires again by Greece Tourism Organization Management.
Corfu island~wide island is about 64 km (40 miles), an area of 588 square kilometers (227 miles), maximum width is 32 kilometers (20 miles). Its highest elevation is 906 m (2,972 ft). She looks like a sickle, cities and ports of the island are concentrated in "sickle" (drepan ē, δρεπάνι) inside Albania's coast.