Any area below the City of Rome was considered the Orient, as well as the ethnicities inhabiting the land, such as Dalmatian Italians, ( modern Moroccans, Greeks, etc . ), as well as everything East of Southern Italy, hence the Italian name " Italia nord-orientale " ( in English Northeast Italy ) for Le Tre Venezie ( the 3 Venice's ) located above the Roman latitude line separating it from modern Abruzzo; the beginning of the Orient in the East, while Lazio is its beginning in the West of the Italian Peninsula.
