Homer's Alcinous ruled the Phaiakians on the island of Scheria, which many modern scholars identify as this island, and its Achilleion Palace was built by Sissi after the death of her son in the Mayerling Affair.
Homer's Alcinous ruled the Phaiakians on the island of Scheria, which many modern scholars identify as this island, and its Achilleion Palace was built by Sissi after the death of her son in the Mayerling Affair. This island's namesake strait is connected to Lake Butrint by the Vivari Channel, and it lies only two nautical miles off the coast of Sarande. Although it was transferred to France in the Treaty of Campo Formio, under Venetian control this island was never captured by the Ottomans, due in large part to the tactics of Johann Mathias von der Schulenburg, and the defenses of the Angelokastro. This island is the namesake of two ► international incidents, one of which involved the murder of an Italian general in 1923, while the other involved the Royal Navy engaging Albanians on three separate occasions in 1946, an early part of the Cold War. The namesake of a prefecture which includes the islands of Mathraki, Othonoi and Paxos, for 10 points, name this second largest of the Greek Ionian Islands.
Homer's Alcinous ruled the Phaiakians on the island of Scheria, which many modern scholars identify as this island, and its Achilleion Palace was built by Sissi after the death of her son in the Mayerling Affair.
Corfu [or Kerkyra; or Corcyra]