Odessa — a city at the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, an administrative centre of the Odessa area. The largest port of Ukraine, the large industrial, cultural, scientific and resort centre; knot highway and railways. The Hero town.

History: the City history well-known only since 1415 as the citiy of Hadzhibej. City rapid development has begun only in the end of a XVIII-th century after joining Black Sea coast territories to the Russian empire as a result of Russian-Turkish wars.

For the first time the new name of a city meets on January, 10th, 1795. In the end of XVIII century there was a tradition to name a city in the territories won at a Turk the Greek names. Therefore it is possible to assume that Odessa named in honour of settling down in northern Black Sea cost an Ancient Greek colony of Odessos, that was nearby to the Odessa gulf

Population: 1 000 779 people  (1 february 2007)

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