Citations:Odessa

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English citations of Odessa and Odesa

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  • 1685, William Howell, An Institution of General History of the Ecclesiastical Affairs of the World, Part II, London, p 390 :
    The Roman Empire going to decay, firſt the Goths pierced into this Countrey, and quitting it upon better hopes, theſe Sclavi, a Hunniſh Nation, barbarous and fierce, whoſe Dominions extended as far as Odeſa, and were ſeparated from the Saxons onely by the River Albis, as wrote Helmoldus, though other ſay, formerly ſeated upon the Lake of Mæotis, invaded and made it their Habitation.
  • 1819, John Martin Baker, A View of the Commerce of the Mediterranean, Washington, →OCLC, p 46:
    . . . the low price of wheat at Odesa, and other wheat shipping ports in the Levant, and the prices generally ruling in the Mediterranean ports west of Marseilles, insure them profit; and, most generally, their voyages with cargoes of wheat terminate prosperous and profitable.
  • 1819, The Register of Shipping, for 1820 (Lloyd’s), London: Society of Merchants, Ship-Owners, and Underwriters, →OCLC, entry 1819–1820.G.440:
    Lo Odesa
  • 1872, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, v 210 (March 15–April 30), p 402 (March 21):
    Viscount ENFIELD: Sir, the only information possessed on this subject by the Foreign Office is contained in an extract from a Russian newspaper, under date February 20, a translation of which has been sent home from Odesa by the Consul General there, Mr. Abbott; it is as follows— . . .
  • 2000, Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Yale University Press; 2nd edition (2002) →ISBN.
    81: The outpouring of all-Russian and anti-German patriotism in cities such as Kiev, Odesa and Kharkiv in 1914 was genuine enough and might have become a more powerful factor if the war had been prosecuted more successfully.
    216: Akhmatova (née Horenko) was born in Odesa, but in the Russian-Jewish Odessa beloved of Isaac Babel and Irina Ratushinskaia.
  • 2007, Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation. Oxford University Press →ISBN.
    16: With the beginning of the war, the Soviet high command transformed the Kyiv and Odesa military districts into Southwestern and Southern Fronts, respectively.
    16: With the fall of Odesa to Romanian forces on October 16 and that of Kharkiv to the Germans on October 25, the battle for Ukraine was over.

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