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Одеса (Odesa)

Одеса (Odesa), formerly Одессса (Odessa), is a seaport on the Black Sea in southwestern Україна (Ukrayina) with a metropolitan population of over a million.1 The city is famous for the Battleship Potemkin uprising in 1905, which took place on the steps down to the port, near a 19th century monument to the Duc de Richelieu. It is infamous for the mass murder of local Jews in 1941; 80% were killed.

The tallest buildings in 2012 are a set of several 24 story modern residential towers, although a taller building is planned.2

YearPopulationPolitical entity
1900 CE449,0003Rossiyskaja Imperija (Russian Empire)
2000 CE1,029,0004Україна (Ukrayina)

External references

the monument to the Duc de Richelieu in Odesa

Historical maps

map showing part of Rossiyskaja Imperija (Russian Empire) and Regatul României (Kingdom of Romania), 1900 CE

map showing Ukrayina,2000 CE

Footnotes

1. World-gazetteer.com, accessed 8/2/2012. The city proper has just under a million.
2. Emporis.com, accessed 11/8/2012, is the source of information about buildings.
3. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of World's Largest Cities".
4. Rounded from world-gazeteer.com, 2001 census (city proper), accessed 11/10/2012.