Odessa

Odessa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transport hub. An ancient Greek settlement existed at its location. A more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440. Odessa was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw.

About Odessa in brief

Summary Odessa Odessa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transport hub. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. An ancient Greek settlement existed at its location. A more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as Hacibey. Odessa was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw. During the Soviet period, it was the most important port of trade in the Soviet Union and a Soviet naval base. Its historical architecture has a style more Mediterranean than Russian, having been heavily influenced by French and Italian styles. The city was named in compliance with the Greek Plan of Catherine the Great. The ancient Greek city of Odessos is mistakenly believed to have been located here. In the Middle Ages successive rulers of Odessa region included various nomadic tribes, the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Ottoman Empire. Since middle of the 13th century the city’s territory belonged to the Golden. Horde domain. On Italian navigational maps of 14th century on the place of Od Vanessa is indicated the castle of Ginestra, at the time the center of a colony of the Republic of Genoa. At times the Northern Black Sea littoral was controlled by the Grand.

DuchY of Kach, when the settlement first was mentioned in15th century. By middle of 15th century, the settlement was depopulated by the Khan Hacay of Crimea. The present-day Odessa is located in between the ancient Greek cities of Tyras and Olbia, different from the ancient Odessesos’s location further west along the coast, which is at present day Varna, Bulgaria. Together they represent a major transport hub integrating with railways. Odessa’s oil and chemical processing facilities are connected to Russian and European networks by strategic pipelines. Current population is 1,017,699 , with a population of 1,000,000 in Odessa oblast and 1,200,000 elsewhere in Ukraine. It was once known as Khadjibey and was administered in direct control of the Ottomans after 1529 as part of the Khadjalist Sanjak. The region was then known as Yedisan Nogay after one of the Sanjalists, and later as Khajibey after the Ottoman Khajalists. It came under direct Ottoman control in 1529 and remained there until the empire’s defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. On 1 January 2000, the Quarantine Pier at Odessa Commercial Sea Port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a period of 25 years. The porto-franco. is a warm-water port situated in the same oblast, to the south-west of the town of Chornomorsk.