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Eastern Armenian

Eastern Armenian (hye, արևելահայերեն) is one of the two modern standards of Armenian, official in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, spoken also in Georgia, Russia and Iran, with seven noun cases, reformed orthography, and Russian-Persian loan vocabulary.

Eastern Bell Capital

Eastern Bell Capital (钟鼎资本) is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Yan Li, specializing in supply chain and logistics, with over US$4.1 billion under management.

Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also called the Soviet bloc, was the group of Eastern European states under Soviet influence during the Cold War, organized through Comecon and the Warsaw Pact, with command economies and shortages, until the 1989 revolutions dissolved it.

Eastern bluebird

Eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis), a small North American thrush, blue above with red-brown breast, nesting in cavities and nest boxes from eastern US and Canada to Nicaragua; about 23 million, low conservation concern, recovering via nest-box trails.

Eastern Borneo

Eastern Borneo is a freshwater ecoregion of eastern Borneo, entirely within Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, defined by a distinct fish assemblage centered on the Mahakam River basin.

Eastern box turtle

Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), a hinged-plastron terrestrial turtle of the eastern United States, Maine to Texas; Vulnerable IUCN status, temperature-dependent sex determination, declining from habitat loss, roads, and trade.

Eastern brown snake

Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), or Common brown snake, a highly venomous Australian elapid. Most lethal of five NSW snakes by LD50-yield comparison; causes coagulopathy, not neurotoxicity; most snakebite deaths in Australia.

Eastern Canada

Eastern Canada (Est du Canada) is the region of Canada east of Manitoba: Ontario, Quebec, and the four Atlantic provinces. Definitions vary; some official usage counts only the Atlantic provinces as Eastern Canada.

Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Koloni region of South Africa): province created in 1994 from the eastern Cape Province plus Transkei and Ciskei; capital Bhisho; 168,966 km2; Census 2022 population 7,230,204; isiXhosa-speaking majority; automotive manufacturing hub.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is the common central bank for eight Eastern Caribbean governments, issuing the EC dollar pegged to the US dollar since 1983.

Eastern Caribbean dollar

The Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$) is the common currency of eight Eastern Caribbean islands, issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and pegged to the US dollar since 1976.

Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches, also called Oriental Catholic Churches, are 23 autonomous Churches in full communion with the Pope that preserve Eastern liturgical, theological, and disciplinary traditions alongside the Latin Church.

Eastern Chalukya dynasty

The Eastern Chalukya dynasty (తూర్పు చాళుక్య) was a South Indian ruling house based at Vengi, in present-day Andhra Pradesh, founded by Kubja Vishnuvardhana, brother of emperor Pulakesin II.

Eastern Chalukyas

The Eastern Chalukyas (వేంగి చాళుక్యులు) were a dynasty that ruled coastal Andhra from Vengi for nearly five centuries, founded by Vishnuvardhana, and merged into the Chola empire in the 1070s.

Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity, also called Eastern Christendom, comprises the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches, with nearly 260 million adherents; the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the largest non-European church.

Eastern Coalfields

Eastern Coalfields Limited is an Indian coal-mining company, a wholly owned Coal India subsidiary set up in 1975, headquartered at Sanctoria, West Bengal, operating mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Eastern Coastal Australia

Eastern Coastal Australia (FEOW ecoregion 807) is a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion spanning Halifax Bay to Wilsons Promontory, 589,000 km2, home to the endemic Australian lungfish and non-parasitic lamprey Mordacia praecox.

Eastern College Athletic Conference

Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), a 1938 collegiate athletic conference whose ECAC Esports division (inaugural season 2017) is one of the big four North American collegiate esports leagues, with 27 titles and 440+ schools.

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰)

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰, also Eastern Bald Eagles) is a 1987 Hong Kong action war film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, a Dirty Dozen-style mission to destroy a secret US missile depot in Vietnam, with Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Haing S. Ngor.

Eastern Congolian swamp forests

Eastern Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo): tropical swamp forest ecoregion on the left bank of the Congo River in DRC and Republic of Congo, 9.29 million ha, bonobo habitat, part of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.

Eastern Continental Divide

The Eastern Continental Divide is the drainage divide of the eastern United States separating Atlantic Ocean watersheds (Susquehanna, Potomac, Roanoke) from Mississippi River, Gulf of Mexico drainage, running partly through the Appalachian Mountains.

Eastern copperhead

Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), venomous pit viper of the eastern and central United States; hourglass crossbands, 50–95 cm; formerly five subspecies, now two copperhead species with no subspecies.

Eastern cottontail

Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), the most widespread North American cottontail rabbit, native from the Great Plains to Central America, introduced to the Northeast and Europe, competitor of the New England cottontail.

Eastern cougar

Eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar), also called eastern puma, an extinct cougar subspecies of eastern North America; last confirmed in 1938, listed endangered 1978, delisted as extinct by USFWS effective February 22, 2018.

Eastern Counties Football League

The Eastern Counties Football League, known as the Thurlow Nunn League, is an English football league founded in 1935 for clubs in East Anglia, playing at steps 5 and 6 of the National League System.

Eastern Darfur

Eastern Darfur (East Darfur, شرق دارفور) is a Sudanese state created in January 2012 from South Darfur under the Doha peace agreement, with capital Ed Daein, about 1.7 million people, and heavy displacement and famine risk since the 2023 war.

Eastern Deffufa

The Eastern Deffufa is a large mud-brick funerary temple in the Eastern Cemetery at Kerma, Sudan, serving royal burials of the Kingdom of Kush around 2500 to 1500 BC.

Eastern Depot

The Eastern Depot (东厂) was the Ming dynasty's eunuch-run office of secret investigation, created by the Yongle emperor to hunt treason and subversive speech, working alongside the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Eastern Desert

Eastern Desert, also called the Arabian Desert, is Egypt's arid region between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, about 220,000-225,000 km². Hyperarid since c. 2500 BC, rich in gold and emeralds, crossed by ancient trade routes to Red Sea ports.

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus), largest US rattlesnake, of southeastern longleaf pine savannas; declining from habitat loss, skin trade, and persecution; ESA listing determined not warranted in 2023.