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Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy comprises the faith and practices stemming from ancient churches in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. It encompasses Orthodox churches in communion with the see of…

Bulgars, Eastern

(Encyclopedia) Bulgars, EasternBulgars, Easternbŭlˈgärz, –gərz [key], Turkic-speaking people, who possessed a powerful state (10th–14th cent.) at the confluence of the Volga and the Kama, E European…

Eastern Cape

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Cape, province, 65,238 sq mi (168,966 sq km), S central South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. In 1994, under South Africa's post-…

Eastern Church

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church.

Eastern Desert

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Desert, Egypt: see Arabian Desert.

Eastern Empire

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Empire: see Roman Empire under Rome; Byzantine Empire.

Eastern Ghats

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Ghats, mts., India: see Ghats.

Eastern Highlands

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Highlands, c.2,400 mi (3,860 km) long, general name for the mountains and plateaus roughly paralleling the east and southeast coasts of Australia (including Tasmania) and…

Eastern Question

(Encyclopedia) Eastern Question, term designating the problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cent. The Turkish threat to Europe was…