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East is a direction in geography. Direction is the information contained in the relative position of one point with respect to another point without the Distance information Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. A compass, magnetic compass or mariner's compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the earth's Magnetic poles It consists This article refers to the cardinal direction for other uses see West (disambiguation. In Geometry and Trigonometry, a right angle is an angle of 90 degrees corresponding to a quarter turn (that is a quarter of a full circle This is about the direction for other uses see North (disambiguation. South is one of Cardinal directions and is opposite to the North. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 A rotation is a movement of an object in a circular motion A two- Dimensional object rotates around a center (or point) of rotation The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System.

The etymology of east is from a Proto-Indo-European language word for dawn, *hausos. Dawn refers to the Twilight before Sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight while the sun itself is still below the horizon * Hausos ( h2aus-os-) is the reconstructed name of a theoretic Proto-Indo-European Goddess associated with Dawn. Cf. Latin aurora and Greek eōs. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Eostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal point. ags Ēostre is the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess attested by the eighth-century Benedictine monk Bede 's De temporum ratione

By convention, an ordinary terrestrial map is oriented so the right side is east. Social norms have been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values beliefs attitudes and behaviors A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, Regions, and Themes This convention dates from the Renaissance. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere Many medieval maps were oriented with the Orient (the East) east at the top, which is the source of the verb orient. The Orient is a term which simply means the " East " It originated in Western Asia to describe that part of the world