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East Shewa Zone
East Shewa Zone, an agricultural zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia, in the Rift Valley southeast of Addis Ababa; 10 districts, about 10,241 km2, 1.16 million people (2007), maize and teff farming, crater lakes, and OLA-related insecurity.
East Siberian Sea
East Siberian Sea (Восточно-Сибирское море), a shallow Arctic Ocean marginal sea between the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island; 913,000 km², mean depth 54 m, most ice-bound Russian Arctic sea, nearly 80% of world subsea permafrost.
East Side Access
East Side Access, the MTA's subway extension for the Long Island Rail Road, connects Queens to the new Grand Central Madison terminal beneath Grand Central, opened in 2023.
East Side Big Pipe
The East Side Big Pipe is a combined sewer overflow storage tunnel on Portland, Oregon's east riverbank, finished in 2011 as the city's largest sewer project.
East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery: 1.3 km of the Berlin Wall's inner wall (Hinterlandmauer) on Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, painted in 1990 by 118 artists from 21 countries; opened 28 September 1990, listed as a monument in 1991, fully repainted in 2009.
East Slavic languages
East Slavic languages: Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian (sometimes with Rusyn), a branch of Slavic descending from Old East Slavic (Old Rusian), the language of Kievan Rus'; defined by tj/dj > č/ž, pleophony, and loss of nasal vowels.
East Slavic name
East Slavic naming system of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: given name, patronymic, surname. Covers patronymic suffixes (-ovich/-ivna), -enko and -ov surname types, 988 Christianization, and Ukrainian name frequencies.
East Slavs
East Slavs: the Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians, speakers of the East Slavic branch of Slavic, shaped by Kyivan Rus, the 988 Christianization, and debated ethnogenesis and homeland.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis, Illinois: a St. Clair County city across the Mississippi from St. Louis, population 18,469 (2020), 93.7% Black, site of the deadly July 2, 1917 race massacre and long industrial decline.
East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire F.C., the Shire, is a Scottish football club in Falkirk founded 1881, now in the Lowland League East; Scottish Division Two champions 1931-32 and Alex Ferguson's first management job in 1974.
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England with five districts (Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, Wealden) and about 546,000 people. Its two-tier councils were slated for unitary reorganisation from 2028, now paused; a Sussex strategic authority began in 2026.
EAST syndrome
EAST syndrome, also called SeSAME syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive KCNJ10 (Kir4.1) channelopathy causing infantile epilepsy, ataxia, sensorineural deafness, and renal salt-wasting tubulopathy with hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia.
East Tennessee
East Tennessee is one of Tennessee's three Grand Divisions, a 35-county Appalachian region including Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities, defined by the Smokies and Valley and Ridge, its Civil War Unionism, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
East Tennessee Natural Gas
East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) is an interstate natural gas pipeline system owned and operated by Enbridge, running 1,526 miles across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.
East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is a public university in Johnson City, Tennessee, founded in 1911 as a normal school, with about 14,000 students, Carnegie R2 classification, Quillen College of Medicine, and record freshman enrollment.
East Texas
East Texas: forested eastern region of Texas, centered on the Piney Woods pine-hardwood belt; humid, culturally Southern, with Tyler, Longview, Nacogdoches; timber, oil (East Texas field), Caddo heritage.
East Texas Gulf
East Texas Gulf (FEOW ecoregion 140) is a temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion covering central Texas from eastern New Mexico, defined by the Brazos and Colorado watersheds and Matagorda Bay, with about 100 fish species and few endemics.
East Texas Oil Field
The East Texas Oil Field, discovered by the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well in 1930, is the largest oil reservoir in the contiguous United States, producing nearly 5.2 billion barrels from northeast Texas.
East Thrace
East Thrace (Doğu Trakya), also called Turkish Thrace or European Turkey, is the part of Turkey in southeastern Europe, its modern borders fixed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
East Timor
East Timor (Timor-Leste), Southeast Asian nation on half of Timor island, capital Dili. Portuguese colony until 1975, Indonesian occupation until 1999 referendum, independence restored 2002; 11th ASEAN member since October 2025.
East Timor solidarity movement
The East Timor solidarity movement was an international network of activists, churches, parliamentarians, and NGOs that campaigned from 1975 to 1999 for East Timor's self-determination after Indonesia's invasion.
East Timorese civil war
The East Timorese civil war was a six-week conflict fought in 1975 between East Timor's UDT and FRETILIN parties during decolonization; FRETILIN won weeks before Indonesia invaded.
EAST trial
The EAST trial, formally EAST-AFNET 4, was an international randomized trial of 2,789 patients showing early rhythm control for atrial fibrillation cut cardiovascular death, stroke, and hospitalization by 21%.
East Troublesome Fire
The East Troublesome Fire was a 2020 wildfire that began near Kremmling, Colorado, and burned 193,812 acres across Grand County and Rocky Mountain National Park, the second-largest fire in Colorado's recorded history.
East Turkestan
East Turkestan (Eastern Turkestan) is a historical and political name for the region now forming China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, used by Uyghurs and tied to the 1933 and 1944 republics.
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB designation in the Tanga region of northeastern Tanzania, covering part of the Eastern Arc Mountains' East Usambaras, with Amani and Nilo forest reserves, high plant endemism, and community-based forest management.
East Vättern Scarp Landscape Biosphere Reserve
East Vättern Scarp Landscape (Östra Vätterbranterna) is a Swedish UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 2012, covering 104,000 hectares east of Lake Vättern, governed by a non-profit association born of landowner-conservationist conflict.
East Ventures
East Ventures is an Indonesian venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Willson Cuaca, Taiga Matsuyama, and Batara Eto, investing across Southeast Asia from seed to growth stages.
East Ventures / SV Investment Southeast Asia fund
The East Ventures–SV Investment Southeast Asia fund is a US$100 million venture capital fund run jointly by Indonesia's East Ventures and Seoul's SV Investment, first closed in February 2025.
East Village, Manhattan
East Village, Manhattan: neighborhood bounded by East 14th Street, 3rd Avenue, East Houston Street, and the East River; also called Alphabet City or Loisaida; about 62,000 residents, Tompkins Square Park, punk rock history, and 2008 rezoning.