Edessa - Odessa
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Do not confuse the place-names Edessa and Odessa. Although only the first letter is different, and the pronunciation of the two in rapid speech may be indistinguishable, they are not connected other than by coincidence.
- Edessa (Ἔδεσσα) was a city in Upper Mesopotamia founded in the fourth century BCE and named after the ancient capital of Macedonia. It is nowknown as 'Urfa, or Şanlıurfa, a city in Turkey.
- Odessa is a city, and important port, on the Black Sea. It is now within Ukraine. It was named, in 1794, under Catherine the Great, in the belief that it was the site of the ancient Greek colony od Odesos (Ὀδησσός), actually the Bulgarian city of Varna.
