Odense, the chief town of the Danish island of Fünen (q.v.). Its cathedral was founded in 1086; and diets were held here in 1527 and 1539. Pop. (1880) 20,804; (1890) 30,277.
Odense
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 578
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