Odense
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Odense
- The largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
- Odense Municipality (Odense Kommune), the municipality of which the city of Odense is administrative centre.
- 2005, Carsten Greve, Niels Ejersbo, Contracts as Reinvented Institutions in the Public Sector[1], Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger), page 91:
- In the policy document, Odense municipality listed several matters to be considered when deciding what to put up for contracting. […] The policy document gives the broad guidelines for contracting out in Odense.
- Odense, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States, named after the Danish city.
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Translations[edit]
city in southern Denmark
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Etymology[edit]
Originally Odins vi ("shrine of Odin"), whence also Vojens (a town in Southern Jutland). Compare Old Norse Óðinn and vé (“temple, sanctuary”). The surrounding area was known as a sanctuary for worshippers of Odin. (See Odense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
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Odense
- Odense (third-largest city in Denmark) and largest city in Region Syddanmark.
- The capital of the eponymous municipality in which it is located.
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