Corfu: Timeline

1081   Corfu taken from Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire

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 by Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard

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, Norman Normans

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 King of Southern Italy Italy

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1197   Corfu is occupied by the Genoese Genoa

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1923   Italian navy occupies Corfu in retaliation of murder of an Italian officer. League of Nations League of Nations

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 protests and they leave September 29