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The term Eastern World, or Orient refers to the countries and cultures of "The East", eastern Eurasia (Asia, especially East Asia), but also Northeastern Africa, Eastern Aurasia and some parts of Oceania. This is opposed to the Western World or the Occident, western Eurasia (Europe), in the Edward Saïd's orientalist ideology of the East-West conflict.

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  • The term Eastern World, or Orient refers to the countries and cultures of "The East", eastern Eurasia (Asia, especially East Asia), but also Northeastern Africa, Eastern Aurasia and some parts of Oceania. This is opposed to the Western World or the Occident, western Eurasia (Europe), in the Edward Saïd's orientalist ideology of the East-West conflict.
  • The term "Eastern World" is once used for the Old World. It perhaps derives from the position of the continent relative to Allansia on world maps of Titan, or from that eastern portion of the one continent, Irritaria, which later became the Old World.
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  • The term Eastern World, or Orient refers to the countries and cultures of "The East", eastern Eurasia (Asia, especially East Asia), but also Northeastern Africa, Eastern Aurasia and some parts of Oceania. This is opposed to the Western World or the Occident, western Eurasia (Europe), in the Edward Saïd's orientalist ideology of the East-West conflict.
  • The term "Eastern World" is once used for the Old World. It perhaps derives from the position of the continent relative to Allansia on world maps of Titan, or from that eastern portion of the one continent, Irritaria, which later became the Old World.
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