Greek East and Latin West the provinces and client states of the Roman Empire in which the "lingua franca" was primarily Greek. This region included the whole Greek peninsula with some other northern parts in the Balkans, the provinces around the Black Sea, those of the Bosphorus, all of Asia Minor (in the loosest possible sense, to include Cappadocia and extending to Armenia Minor), Magna Graecia (southern part of the Italian peninsula and Sicily), and the other provinces along the eastern rim of the Mediterranean Sea (Judea, Syria, Cyrenaica and Egypt). These Roman provinces had been Greek colonies or Greek-ruled states during the Hellenistic period,
Literature from North East India no single definition of the phrase Literature from North East India as the diversity of this region defies easy definition. Broadly, this phrase refers mostly to English writing but may also include Assamese literature and writings in the Meitei language, that have long traditions of writing and stand on their own with a glorious legacy. Many writers such as Harekrishna Deka and Temsula Ao have expressed discomfit with the term North-East India and North Eastern writers, respectively. A section also strongly argue that the term is colonial and hence, an artificial construct. There is nothing called a "north-easterner" and the