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The Orient Express appeared as a technologically advanced (for its time) train in the book Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld. Thea Stilton and the Mystery on the Orient Express by Elisabetta Dami; Madness on the Orient Express is an anthology of horror stories, all connected to the Orient Express, edited by James Lowder.
On 4 October 1883, the Gare de l'Est saw the first departure of the Orient Express for Istanbul. The Gare de l'Est is the terminus of a strategic railway network extending towards the eastern part of France, and it saw large mobilizations of French troops, most notably in 1914, at the beginning of World War I.
Ancient Orient of the Roman Empire and its ecclesiastical order after the Council of Chalcedon, 451. The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.
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The Chemins de fer Orientaux (English: Oriental Railway; Turkish: Rumeli Demiryolu or İstanbul-Viyana Demiryolu) (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman railway company operating in Rumelia (the European part of the Ottoman Empire, corresponding to the Balkan peninsula) and later European Turkey, from 1870 to 1937. [1]
It connects Western Russia to the Russian Far East, [8] and is the longest railway line in the world, [9] with a length of over 9,289 kilometres (5,772 miles). The railway starts from Russia's capital Moscow , which is the largest city in Europe, and ends at Vladivostok , on the coast of the Pacific Ocean .
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: China in Western Thought and Culture; John E. Hill, translation in his e-edition of Hou Hanshu; Edward Said's Splash The impact of Edward Said's book on Middle Eastern studies, by Martin Kramer. Frontier Orientalism — an article by Austrian anthropologist Andre Gingrich; Edward Said and the Production of ...
AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.