Ovidiopol

Ovidiopol (Ukrainian: Ові́діополь, translit.: Ovídiopol’; Russian: Овидиополь, translit.: Ovidiopol' ; Turkish: Hacıdere, Romanian: Ovidiopol) is a coastal urban-type settlement in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Ovidiopol Raion. It is located at around 46°14′41″N 30°26′41″E. Population: 11,957 (2015 est.)[1]

Church of Saint Nicholas, the Miraclemaker

The town was named in 1795 after Ovid, the Roman poet exiled to the Black Sea coast, based on the claim of Dimitrie Cantemir in his Descriptio Moldaviae (1714-16) that a local lake near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (probably the Dniester Liman itself, on whose eastern shore the town is located) was named in Romanian Lacul Ovidului (Ovid's Lake).

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine

Twin towns — Sister cities

Ovidiopol is twinned with:

References
  1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
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