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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Odessa.

Etymologies

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From Ukrainian Одеса (Odésa) = Russian Одесса (Odéssa).

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Examples

  • LJ user sabeloff posts pictures of the ruined remains of a seaside young pioneer camp in Odesa and shares the recent history of the place (RUS) - which, unfortunately, is a rather common sight in today's Ukraine:

    Global Voices in English » Ukraine: The Ruins and the Greed 2009

  • […] This is an old summer camp near the 13th Station of the Bolshoi Fontan in Odesa.

    Global Voices in English » Ukraine: The Ruins and the Greed 2009

  • - Kathy, college student from Odesa, commenting on Sufjan Stevens 'stage persona.

    thoughts dudemanflab 2004

  • Telephone system: 7,886,000 telephone circuits; about 151.4 telephone circuits/1,000 persons (1991); the telephone system is inadequate both for business and for personal use; 3.56 million applications for telephones had not been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail services have been established in Kiev, Odesa, and Luhans'k by Sprint local: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol ', Pivdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv)

    The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Fiber-Optic Line (TAE); these lines connect Ukraine to worldwide service through Belarus, Hungary, and Poland; Odesa is a landing point for the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable

    The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Local writer Issac Babel claimed Odesa had 'more charm than any city in the Russian Empire' and that's probably still true in modern-day

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Europe were invited to make their fortune here when Odesa was founded in the late 18th century by

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Odesa is a city straight from literature - an energetic, decadent boomtown.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • She recalled that the Ukrainian students had been the first to oppose to anti-Ukrainian actions by officials, whereas the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine had expressed its strong protest against attempts to financially "strangle" a Ukrainian newspaper in Odesa region, Chornomorski Novyny (Black Sea News).

    www.kyivpost.com 2010

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