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Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde
When I played Anno 1404, I was rather surprised that the Middle East as referred as "The Orient", because I also thought 'oriental' meant something like China.
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The original "Orient" was indeed the Middle East. For instance, the "Orient Express" was a train that ran from Paris to Istanbul, which at the time was considered in "the Orient", in fact it was the capital of the "Orient".