For most of history, Greece was associated with being "Eastern".
When did the switch take place?
1800s?
>>3156448
The EU invited all the shitskins of the world into Europe.
>>3156448
Western reactionaries
Ottoman empire and division of balkans from rest of Europe politically
>>3156448
After Byzantium fell to the Turks "the East" became pretty quickly conflated with the Islamic world.
So once the majorly Christian Balkan nations gained their independence from the Islamic Ottoman Empire, a new division was made.
>>3157206
So
800 AD
Eastern=Orthodox
1800 AD
Eastern =Muslim
2000AD
Eastern= Buddhist/Hindu