Orient (disambiguation) explained
The Orient is usually a historic term for the Eastern world (as contrasted with the Occident).
Orient or Oriental may also refer to:
History
- Ancient Orient, designation for the Ancient Near East
- Hellenistic Orient, designation for the Hellenistic Near East
- Roman Orient (disambiguation), designation for eastern regions of the Roman Empire, in particular:
- Persian Orient, designation for territorial scope of several successive Persian Empires
- Ottoman Orient, designation for regions of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East
Places
United States
- Orient, Illinois
- Orient, Iowa
- Orient, Maine
- Orient, New York
- Oriental, North Carolina
- Orient, Ohio
- Orient, Oregon
- Orient, South Dakota
- Orient, Texas
- Orient, Washington
- Orient Heights, a section of East Boston, Massachusetts
- Orient Township, Michigan
Arts and entertainment
Business
Airlines
Banking
- China Orient Asset Management
- M Oriental Bank, formerly Oriental Commercial Bank Limited, a commercial bank in Kenya
- OFG Bancorp, or Oriental Bank, a financial holding company in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Oriental Bank which merged with Consolidated National Bank of New York in 1909 to form National Reserve Bank
- Oriental Bank Corporation, a British imperial bank founded in India in 1842
- Oriental Bank of Commerce, a former Indian public sector bank
- Oriental Bank PLC, or Oriental Bank, a commercial bank founded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2021
Shipping
Other Businesses
Masonic organizations
Ships
Sports
Other uses
- Orient (automobile), an early American automobile
- The Orient (newspaper), see Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey
- The Orient Building, a historic building in Hollywood, California
- Orient Hospital, a former Lebanese hospital
- Orient House, headquarters of the PLO in East Jerusalem in the 1980s and '90s
- El Oriental (born 1972), Mexican freestyle wrestler
- Oriental (cat) or Oriental Shorthair, a breed of domestic cat
- Oriental College, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
- Oriental tobacco
- Oriental University, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Mongoloid, the "Oriental" race
- The Bowdoin Orient, a student newspaper at Bowdoin College in the U.S. state of Maine
- An alternative name for the natives of the República Oriental del Uruguay
See also