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Odeion of Perikles
Odeion of Perikles (Ωδείον του Περικλέους), a large roofed square hall on Athens' Acropolis south slope, built 447–443/2 BC for Panathenaic musical contests, imitating Xerxes' tent, later rebuilt by Ariobarzanes II.
Odeko
Odeko Inc. is a New York-based software and distribution company founded in 2019 by Dane Atkinson, providing operations software, supply ordering, financing, and insurance to independent coffee shops.
Odela 2
Odela 2 (ఓదెల 2), also called Odela Railway Station 2, is a 2025 Telugu supernatural horror thriller directed by Ashok Teja, starring Tamannaah Bhatia as Naga Sadhu Bhairavi fighting Vasishta N. Simha's vengeful spirit; released 17 April 2025, streamed on Prime Video.
Odela Railway Station (ఓడేల రైల్వే స్టేషన్)
Odela Railway Station (ఓడేల రైల్వే స్టేషన్) is a 2022 Telugu crime thriller directed by Ashok Teja, written by Sampath Nandi, starring Hebah Patel, Vasishta N. Simha, Sai Ronak, and Pujita Ponnada; it premiered on Aha on 26 August 2022 about serial killings of newlywed brides in Odela, Telangana, and received a 2025 sequel, Odela 2.
Odelay
Odelay is Beck's 1996 Geffen album, his fifth studio record and second on a major label, produced with the Dust Brothers; a sample-heavy genre-blending album with Devil's Haircut, Where It's At, and The New Pollution.
Odell Beckham Jr.
Odell Beckham Jr., NFL wide receiver drafted 12th overall by the Giants in 2014, three-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl LVI champion with the Rams; 2026 Giants comeback ended with a September release.
Oden (おでん)
Oden (おでん) is a Japanese winter simmered dish of tane such as daikon, konnyaku, chikuwabu, and fish cakes in katsuobushi-kombu dashi with soy sauce, descended from miso dengaku, sold per piece at konbini and oden-ya stalls.
Odense
Odense, Denmark's third-largest city on Funen, first recorded in 988 as an episcopal see; name means "Odin's sacred place". Viking fortress Nonnebakken, Cnut the Holy's 1086 murder, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, climate-neutral 2030 target.
Odense Boldklub
Odense Boldklub (OB), Danish football club founded 1887 in Odense, Funen; three Danish titles (1977, 1982, 1989), five cups, and the 1994 "Miracle in Madrid" win over Real Madrid; plays at Nature Energy Park.
Odense Kommune
Odense Kommune, Danish municipality on Funen in Region Syddanmark, formed 1 April 1970 by merging Odense market town with 11 parish municipalities and Højby parish. Denmark's 4th largest municipality, 213,511 residents (2026), 29-member city council, six administrative departments, unchanged by the 2007 reform.
Odense Robotics
Odense Robotics is Denmark's national cluster for robotics, automation and drones, a non-profit association established in Odense in 2015 that now has more than 300 members and supports the Danish robotics industry.
Odense University Hospital
Odense University Hospital, also known as Odense Universitetshospital (OUH), is one of Denmark's four university hospitals, in Odense, owned by the Region of Southern Denmark and partnered with the University of Southern Denmark.
Odeon at Aphrodisias
Odeon at Aphrodisias: Roman-era roofed concert hall and Bouleuterion (council house) between the Temple of Aphrodite and North Agora; about 1,700 seats, marble stage façade, rebuilt 2nd century AD by the family of Tiberius Claudius Attalos.
Odéon at Carthage
The Odéon at Carthage was a Roman auditorium for music and spoken performance, built under the Severans and second in size only to Rome's Odeon of Domitian.
Odeon at Catania
The Odeon at Catania is a small Roman odeum built in the 2nd century AD west of the ancient theatre on Montevergine hill, Sicily; about 42 m wide, seating roughly 1,500, used for musical and poetic contests, later buried, spoliated, and excavated from the 18th century onward.
Odeon at Hadrian's Villa
The so-called Odeon (South Theatre) at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli: a private theatre of about 1,100 seats, 55 m cavea, built 133-138 CE; recent scholarship rejects the odeon identification.
Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
Odeon at Kom el-Dikka, Alexandria: Egypt's only Roman theatre-odeon, 13 marble tiers seating 600-800, remodeled in the 6th century into a domed lecture auditorium of the late-antique academic complex.
Odeon Cinemas
Odeon Cinemas, the British cinema chain founded by Oscar Deutsch in 1930, now trades as ODEON Cinemas Group, Europe's largest cinema operator under AMC Theatres since 2016, with around 280 cinemas and the Leicester Square flagship.
Odeon in Ptolemais
Odeon in Ptolemais: small Roman odeum at Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, Libya; 32 m cavea, second or third century AD, converted in the fourth or fifth century for water spectacles, later a Byzantine cistern.
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Herodeion), Roman odeon on the Acropolis' southwest slope, built 160-174 CE by Herodes Atticus for his wife Regilla; roofed originally, restored 1952-53, main Athens Epidaurus Festival venue, closed 2026 for restoration.
Odeon of Lyon
Odeon of Lyon: Roman odeon (roofed concert hall) on Fourvière hill at Lugdunum, built late 1st-2nd century AD, 73 m diameter, ~3,000 seats, rare in Gaul, restored 1933-1970.
Odeon of Philippopolis
The Odeon of Philippopolis is an ancient Roman odeon, a small covered theater, uncovered at the Ancient Forum of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, that also housed the city council.
Oder
Oder (Odra, Latin Viadus/Viadua): Central European river, 840-854 km, rising in the Czech Republic, flowing through Poland, forming the German-Polish border since 1945, and reaching the Baltic via the Szczecin Lagoon; site of the 1997 flood and the 2022 Prymnesium parvum fish-kill disaster.
Oder–Neisse line
Oder–Neisse line: the German-Polish border along the Oder and Neisse rivers, set provisionally at Potsdam in 1945, recognized by the GDR in 1950, by West Germany in the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw, and made final in 1990.
Odes
The Odes (Latin: Carmina) is a collection of 103 Latin lyric poems in four books by Horace, adapting Greek lyric meters to Roman life and coining carpe diem.
Odes of Bacchylides
The Odes of Bacchylides are the surviving choral songs of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides of Keos, recovered from a papyrus found in Egypt in 1896.
Ödes Schloss bridgehead fort
Ödes Schloss (Öde Schloss, Veste Stopfenreuth), a Roman bridgehead fort near Stopfenreuth, Lower Austria, identified in 2024-2025 excavations; first of its type found in Austria, guarding the Amber Road Danube crossing near Carnuntum.
Odesa (Одеса)
Odesa (Одеса), Ukraine's third-largest city and main Black Sea port, founded 1794 by Catherine II on the Ottoman fortress site of Khadzhybei; a free port 1819–1859, a 19th-century grain-export and multiethnic hub, now a UNESCO endangered World Heritage site sustaining wartime grain trade.
Odesa Film Studio (Одеська кіностудія)
Odesa Film Studio (Одеська кіностудія), founded 23 May 1919 in Odesa, Ukraine, is one of Europe's oldest film studios, with over 300 films, Dovzhenko's early works, and national-film-producer status since 2011.
Odesa Lunapark
Odesa Lunapark (Одеський лунапарк) is an amusement park opened in 2011 in Shevchenko Park, Odesa, Ukraine, near Lanzheron beach. Over 20 rides, a 45 m Ferris wheel, ice rink, Park-Card payments, generator power during blackouts.