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Basil bar Shumna (d. c. 1170) bishop who wrote a chronicle of the city's history (now lost) Cyrus of Edessa, 6th century Syriac Christian writer; John bar Aphtonia, a key figure in the transmission of Greek thought and literary culture into a Syriac milieu; Thaddeus of Edessa, Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus
Odesa [a] (also spelled Odessa) [b] is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre.
Edessa (Greek: Έδεσσα, pronounced; also known as the "City of Waters and of the 5 Senses"), [3] until 1923 Vodena (Greek: Βοδενά), is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. It was also the capital of the defunct province of the same name.
Filiki Eteria (Greek: Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία, romanized: Filikī́ Etaireía) or Society of Friends (Greek: Ἑταιρεία τῶν Φιλικῶν, romanized: Etaireía tôn Filikôn) was a secret political and revolutionary organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek State. [1]
Odesa Museum of Regional History; ... Odessa pogroms; R. Richelieu Lyceum This page was last edited on 17 April 2024, at 18:03 (UTC). ...
Odessa Military District established. Vorontsov Lighthouse built. 1865 – Imperial Novorossiya University established. [4] 1866 – Odessa-Balta railway begins operating. [4] 1871 Pogrom against Jews. [8] Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded. 1873 – Population: 162,814. [13] 1874 – Theatre Velikanova built. 1875 – Tzar ...
Jul. 26—A bit of history was shared and made during the Odessa City Council meeting Tuesday night with a generous donation from one of Odessa's oldest families. Larry Bell and his family ...
The main fund of the museum is the largest collection of sources on the ancient history of the Northern Black Sea coast, it has more than 170 thousand archaeological sources of ancient history of southern Ukraine from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, including 55 thousand coins, the only collection of monuments in Ukraine of Ancient Egypt, the largest collection of ancient rarities in the ...