What is "ovidiopol"

Ovidiopol (, translit.: Ovidiopol; , translit.: ''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 . Population:

The town was named in 1793 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).