Corus Explained

Corus may refer to:

Places

• Çörüş, Gazipaşa, a village in Antalya Province, Turkey

Facilities and structures

• Corus Quay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; an office tower

Fictional locations

• Corus, a fictional world that is the setting for the fantasy series The Corean Chronicles by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

People

Mythological characters

• Corus or Caurus, one of the Anemoi and the Roman god of the northwest wind
• Corus (mythology), in Greek mythology the spirit and personification of surfeit and disdain

Events

• Battle of Corus (281 BC)

Companies

• Corus Group plc, UK/Netherlands steel company
• Corus Bankshares, a financial holding group
• Corus Entertainment, a Canadian entertainment company
  • Corus Québec (formerly Radiomédia), a news-talk radio network
• Corus Hotels, hotel chain

Sport

• Corus chess tournament, former name for the Tata Steel Chess Tournament held in the Netherlands
• Corus (Port Talbot) RFC, former name of Welsh rugby football club Tata Steel RFC
• Corus Steel FC, former name of Welsh football club Tata Steel F.C.

Biology

• Corus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the longhorn family Cerambycidae
• Miletus croton corus (M. c. corus), a subspecies of butterfly
• Papilio corus (P. corus) or Euploea phaenareta corus (E. p. corus), a former species now subspecies of butterfly

Other uses

• Corus, a fictional automobile manufacturer featured in Cross Racing Championship 2005, L.A. Street Racing and Project Torque, all of which are games developed by Invictus Games.
• CÓRus, Irish choir

See also

• Barker v Corus (UK) plc (2006) a UK House of Lords decision on industrial liability in tort law
  • • Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) a U.S.-sponsored Cuban counter-revolutionary anti-communist force
• Chorus (disambiguation)
• Korus (disambiguation)