The city of Odessa in Ukraine was named after an ancient Greek settlement called Odessos, which most likely came from a pre-Greek language meaning "town upon the water".
Odessa was a genocide site in the Ukraine in WWII.
― Anonymous User 6/23/2020
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The city of Odessa in the Ukraine is known as "the pearl of the Black Sea", but it's also infamous because of the Odessa pogroms of the 19th-early 20th centuries... In Ukraine, the name is pronounced not o-DES-sa, but more like ah-DYESH-uh.