Odessa (bahasa Yunani Kuno: Ἔδεσσα) adalah nama historis untuk kota bangsa Asiria[1][2][3] di Mesopotamia utara, didirikan kembali di situs kuno oleh Seleucus I Nicator. Untuk kota Odessa modern, lihat Şanlıurfa.
- ^ "National and Ethnic Identity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Identity in Post-Empire Time" (PDF). Simo Parpola, Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies: 20. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2011-07-17.
... several semi-independent kingdoms of decidedly Assyrian stamp and/or identity (Osrhoene, Adiabene, Hatra, Assur) popped up in the East...
- ^ Aramaic (Assyrian/Syriac) Dictionary - s. 206, by Nicolas Awde.
- ^ Evans, Craig A., The interpretation of scripture in early Judaism and Christianity, (T & T Clark International, 2000), 250.