| To date a number of Japanese and Chinese companies, as well as a host of European enterprises, have invested in the development of the free economic zone, to this end private investors in the city have invested a great deal of money into the provision of quality office real estate and modern manufacturing facilities such as warehouses and plant complexes | It soon recovered and the growth in trade made Odessa Russia's largest grain-exporting port |
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| היא נעשתה לביתם של אוכלוסיות מגוונות, כמו , , , וסוחרים שייצגו לאומים אירופיים רבים | In 1794, the city of Odessa was founded by a decree of the |
Its early growth owed much to the work of the , who served as the city's governor between 1803 and 1814.
22| Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press | Odesa is situated on a large, virtually ice-free bay on the Black Sea, near the mouths of the Danube River, the Dnister River, the Boh River, and the Dnieper River, which link it with the interior of the country |
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| On Italian navigational maps of 14th century on the place of Odessa is indicated the castle of Ginestra, at the time the center of a colony of the more | Internal Affairs Ministry advisor said on 25 December that Odessa and Kharkiv had become "cities which are being used to escalate tensions" in Ukraine |