* 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacred approximately 3, 000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).

A line joining Ràs al Hadd, East point of Arabia ( 22 ° 32 ' N ) and Ràs Jiyùni ( 61 ° 43 ' E ) on the coast of Pakistan.

In view of implacable demands by the political leadership of both Hindu and Islamic communities in British India for a separate Hindu and a separate Muslim homeland, Mountbatten conceded the notion of two nations consisting of a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan ( which incorporated East Pakistan, now Bangladesh ).

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

The province of Bengal in British India was partitioned into West Bengal and East Pakistan in 1947.

After 1947, India made more progress on public health than East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).

In 1947, Muslim majority districts of Bengal favored the Partition of India after approving the June 3rd Plan presented by the Viceroy of India Lord Earl Mounbatten, and merged with the new province of East Bengal of the Dominion of Pakistan.

From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.

In 1955, the Bengali Prime minister Muhammad Ali Bogra devolved the province of East Bengal and established the state as East Pakistan with Dhaka its state capital.

The Awami League gained the control of the East Pakistan after appointing Huseyn Suhrawardy for the office of Prime minister.

The socialist rule was violently ended in 1958 by the U. S .- backed military ruler General Ayub Khan who disbanded the political parties and took tough actions against the communist mass in both East and West Pakistan.

The economic disparity, impression that West Pakistan despite being less populated than East Pakistan was ruling and prospering at its cost further popularize the Bengali nationalism.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

The Goths (; ; ; ; ) were an East Germanic tribe whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe.

The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; ) is located in Turkish Thrace ( or East Thrace ), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

Orient House (; bayt ʾal-šarq ) is a building located in East Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the 1980s and 1990s.

He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as " The Lawgiver " (;, al ‐ Qānūnī ), for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system.

Zanzibar (; from, from " Coast of Blacks "; + ) is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa.

Dover (; ) is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL (; born 26 December 1949 ) was the President of East Timor from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012, the second since independence from Indonesia.

Sussex (; abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (' South Saxons '), is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

The Cherokee (; ) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas, and East Tennessee ).

Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev (; formerly East Cape or Cape Vostochny ) is a cape that forms the eastmost mainland point of Eurasia.

Alfalfa (; Medicago sativa ) is a perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in the US, Canada, Argentina, France, Australia, the Middle East, South Africa, and many other countries.

Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft (; died 1305 ) was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

East Dunbartonshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

The Gepids (; ; possibly, " giver " or gepanta ) were an East Germanic tribe who were closely related to the Goths.

Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Near East town located at the site of modern Tell ed-Duweir in the Shephelah, a region between Mount Hebron and the maritime plain of Philistia ( Joshua 10: 3, 5 ; 12: 11 ).

The Yukaghir, or Yukagir (; self-designation: одул ( odul ), деткиль ( detkil )) are a people in East Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River.

Pure Land Buddhism (;, Jōdo bukkyō ; Korean:, jeongtojong ; Vietnamese: ), also referred to as Amidism in English, is a broad branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism and currently one of the most popular traditions of Buddhism in East Asia.

Proponents of the term " East Turkestan " argue that the name Xinjiang (; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang ) is arrogant, because if the individual Chinese characters are to be taken literally and not as a proper name, then Xinjiang means " New Territory ".

Haakon VI of Norway (; ) was a monarch of the House of Bjelbo, a royal Swedish dynasty which originated in East Gothland.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Junker (; ) was an often pejorative designation for a member of the landed nobility in Prussia and eastern Germany ( East Elbia ).

Kosovo Polje, literally Blackbird's Field, also often rendered Field of Blackbirds (; ) is a town and municipality in the Pristina district of central Kosovo, at 42. 63 ° North, 21. 12 ° East, or approximately eight kilometres south-west of Pristina.

Haleakalā (; Hawaiian: ), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75 % of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

It may remind one of Russia, China or East Berlin ; ;

the smoke-filled, art-filled, drama-filled life of the great cities of the East ; ;

We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;

East Meadow has philosophy, psychology, and religion ; ;

the 3, T'ai-Shan in Shantung, East China ; ;

The East was popularly supposed to have got the country into war and into depression, dragging the west along ; ;

Life had included him in its `` Modern American Artists '' series and had photographed him at his studio in the East Sixties ; ;

There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.