The east

of these articles is concerned with the direction the east. For other meanings, see the east (term clarifying).

The east (althochdt of. ostan ) a direction is “eastern ”. The term is root related to Greek eos and Latin aurora. Both means “morning redness”. It is interesting that the earlyMaps does not genordet, but orients geoconstantly = (!) were (of oriens = the east).

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geography

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the east is certain by the rotation direction of the earth around the Erdachse toward sunrise. (lat.: oriens (Orient) and/or. griech.: anatole (S. Anatolien).

The expression „the east “becomes since that 15. Century uses. Originally the area of the east was called morning country, the country, in which „the sun comes up “. Today these areas the Near East, the middle east are called and furthermore the east. In the Christian faith the east is the direction, outthe up-purchased and recurring Christ is expected.

It is main direction and used for navigation and to the indication of coordinates. The term „east “or „the east “(abbreviation O, English. E) designates a direction, the one bisector between north (0 degrees) and south (180 degrees) represents. The sun is at the time equinox around 6:00 clock (local time) accurately in the east. The adjective in addition is eastern.

Other main directions are the west, the north and the south.

Regarding the east wind common: „It blows an east. “

Quotation: lat. „ex oriente lux “= from the east (comes) the light

in China stands the earth branch of the hare (卯 mǎo) and the tri gram thunder (震 zhèn) symbolically for the direction the east.

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in the course of the German-German reunification 1989/1990 developed the term Ossi as casual name for the East German. The West German ones received the short form Wessi.

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see also

Wiktionary: The east - word origin, synonyms and translations
 

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