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The Orient is usually a historic term for the Eastern world (as contrasted with the Occident).

Contents

• History
• Places
• United States
• Buildings
• Arts and entertainment
• Business
• Airlines
• Banking
• Shipping
• Other Businesses
• Masonic organizations
• Ships
• Sports
• Schools & universities
• Newspapers & magazines
• Other uses
• See also

Orient or Oriental may also refer to:

History

• Ancient Orient, designation for the Ancient Near East
• Hellenistic Orient, designation for the Hellenistic Near East
• Roman Orient (disambiguation), designation for eastern regions of the Roman Empire, in particular:
  • Diocese of the Orient, an administrative diocese in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
  • Prefecture of the Orient, a praetorian prefecture in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
• Persian Orient, designation for territorial scope of several successive Persian Empires
• Ottoman Orient, designation for regions of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East

Places

• Orient, Queensland, Australia
• Oriente (province), a former province of Cuba
• L'Orient, a town in Brittany, France
• Oriental (municipality), Puebla, Mexico
• Oriental (Morocco)
• Negros Oriental, a province of the Philippines
• L'Orient, Switzerland

Arts and entertainment

• Orient (1924 film) (German title: Orient - Die Tochter der Wüste), a German silent film
• Orient (1928 film) (German title: Frauenraub in Marokko), a German silent film
• Orient (novel), a 2015 novel by Christopher Bollen
• Orientalism (book), a 1978 book by Edward W. Said
• Orient (manga), by Shinobu Ohtaka
• Orient: A Hero's Heritage , a computer role-playing game
• Henry Orient, a fictional character in the novel and film The World of Henry Orient
• Oriental (Albéniz), a composition by Isaac Albéniz
• Oriental music (disambiguation)

Business

Masonic organizations

• Grand Orient de France
• Grand Orient of Switzerland
• Grande Oriente do Brasil
• Grand Orient du Congo
• Grand Orient of Belgium
• Grand Orient of Italy
• Grand Orient of Luxembourg
• Grand Orient of the Netherlands

Ships

• Oriental, a sailing ship chartered by the New Zealand Company in 1839
• Oriental (steamship), wrecked on the Outer Banks in 1862
• French ship Orient, several ships
• MV Orient Queen, the name of multiple ships
• Orient (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon in the late 1800s
• Orient, which traded between England and Adelaide from 1857 to 1877

Sports

• Leyton Orient F.C., an English football club, often known just as "Orient"
• FC Lorient, a French football club, known as Lorient

Schools & universities

• School of Oriental and African Studies, aka SOAS University of London, in London, UK
• Oriental College, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• Oriental University, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Newspapers & magazines

• L'Orient–Le Jour (fr), L'Orient Today (en), a Lebanese newswpaper
• The Orient (newspaper), published in Istanbul (1919–1922) under British occupation
• The Bowdoin Orient , a student newspaper at Bowdoin College in

Other uses

• Orient (automobile), an early American automobile
• Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey
• El Oriental (born 1972), Mexican freestyle wrestler
• Oriental (cat) or Oriental Shorthair, a breed of domestic cat
• Oriental tobacco
• Mongoloid, the "Oriental" race
• The U.S. state of Maine
• An alternative name for the natives of the República Oriental del Uruguay

See also

• Orient Express (disambiguation)
• Oriental dragon (disambiguation)
• Oriental Hotel (disambiguation)
• Oriental Institute (disambiguation)
• Oriental Pearl (disambiguation)
• Oriental Theatre (disambiguation)
• The Oriental (disambiguation)
• Oriente (disambiguation)

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