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Odessa. Plan o! the central districts oi the South Russian 

 city, with the harbour 



Oder. River of Germany. It 

 rises near Kozlau in Moravia, 

 Czecho-Slovakia, and flows through 

 Silesia and Prussia to the Baltic 

 Sea at the Stettiner Half. In 

 Silesia it occupies a valley between 

 the Bohemian and Polish plateaux. 

 It has been canalised to a depth of 

 at least 5 ft. for 480 m. from the 

 mouth of Swinemunde to Ratibor, 

 although boats of 400 tons stop at 

 Kosel, the river port for the mining 

 region of Upper Silesia. The chief 

 tributary is the Warta (Warthe), 

 which with its affluent the Netze 

 drains the W. plains of Poland. 

 There are canal connexions to the 

 Elbe and Vistula. Length, 550 m. 

 Odessa. City and seaport of 

 Russia, the chief business centre 

 in the south of the country. It is 

 in the govt. of 

 Kherson, 2"> in. 

 N. of the mouth 

 of the Dniester 

 90 m. S.W. of 

 Kherson, and is 

 the terminus of 

 the south-west- 

 ern rly. It con- 

 tains a large 



March 12, 1018, 

 andwaaUkenby 

 the Bolshevist* 

 in 1020. Soviet 

 Ituwia made it 

 an often port. 



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Odeum, i 

 fnii of the Greek 

 Oil i ion, name for 

 .1 building de- 

 voted to muni- 

 en 1 perform' 

 a n c e a. Such 

 l.ml'lmus used 

 to be found in 

 many Greek 

 cities, but t he 

 most f a m o u a 

 were the odeum 

 of 1 'frit-lea S.K. 

 of the Acropolis 

 at Athens, and 

 that built by 

 Herodes Atticua 

 at the foot of 

 the Acropolis in 

 Athens about 

 A.D. 160. The 

 odeum accommodated 



Athenian 



about 8,000 people, and its ruins 



still stand. 



Odin. In Norse mythology, the 

 greatest of the gods. He is the 

 Anglo-Saxon Woden and German 

 Wodan, and his name, cognate with 

 Lat. votes, a seer, probably means 

 frenzied. Creator of the world and 

 of mankind, he is called All-father. 



Contrasted with th<- p.m-h peasant*' 



*, hewMworl. 



ally hy the noble farnilie*, many of 

 item IMH i 



him, and was 

 patron of 

 culture, in- 

 ventor of 

 runes, and 

 f wi- 



magic, and 

 prophecy. Hi* 

 two raven* 

 brought him 

 new* of daily 

 event*. In 

 various forma. 

 but chiefly aa 

 a one-eyed old 

 man wrapt in 

 a mantle, he 

 wandered 

 through the 

 Aa a 



war god Odin 

 was lord of 

 the Valkyries, 

 and those 

 who fell in battle, regarded aa 

 sacrificed to him, were received 

 by him into Valhalla. See Mimir; 

 Valkyrie ; Wednesday : Mytho- 

 logy ; Ymir. 



Odoacer, OOOVAKAB OB OTTO- 

 KAR (c. 435-493). German soldier. 

 A prince of one of the tribes on the 



Odin, the createst ot 

 the northern cods 



From m palmlimi kt 



D 



ntered the Roman 

 army and be- 

 came one of the 

 imperial body- 

 guard. Putting 

 himself at the 

 head of a revolt 

 of German rner- 

 cenaries, he 

 compelled the 

 emperor Romu- 

 lus Augustulus 

 to abdicate, was 

 raised to the 

 rank of patri- 

 cian by Zeno, 

 emperor of 



Odessa arm* 



cathedral, university, and obser- 

 vatory. 



Odessa (the Roman lairianorum 

 portus) was founded by Catherine 

 II in 1795 on the shores of the 

 Black Sea, in order to provide the 

 country with one ice-free winter 

 port. Cut olf from communica- 

 tion with the Allies when Turkey 

 closed the Dardanelles, in 1914, 

 Odessa was bombarded by the 

 Turkish fleet on several occasions. 

 It was occupied from the 

 land side by the Germans on 



Odessa. Russia. Harbour lor foreign vessels, known as the Quarantine 



Harbour. Top. Richelieu stain, descending from the fashionable Nicholas 



Boulevard to the harbour 



