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The direction of warm migrations, budget beach towns, and empires that peaked and sprawled toward it.
means The compass direction exactly between south and east, and the regions that lie that way.
from A plain compound of 'south' and 'east,' both Old English words tracking the sun and the seasons — 'south' likely rooted in a word for 'sun-side,' 'east' tied to the direction of dawn. English just mashed the two together to name the point between them, same as it did with 'northwest' and the rest.
- on a compass
- exactly between south and east, 135 degrees
- linguistic quirk
- english says southeast, not eastsouth, by convention
- historical pull
- ottoman, roman, and us expansions often crept southeast
- navigation tip
- sun rises roughly southeast in winter, northern hemisphere