Alshar

Alshar is a continent and geographic region located in the Eastern Hemisphere of the globe. Alshar is bound to the south by the Pukhthun Sea, the Sea of Capelan to the north, the Ocean of Cathay to the east and the Audonian landmass and the Levantine Sea to the west. Through millenia of habitation it has been home to many empires and expansive civilizations. It is the second most populated continent and the third largest by total landmass.

Name
The continent has several widely used names. The most commonly used, "Alshar", descends from the Arabic word الشرق (lit. "east", "alshrq"). The term is thought to have originated with Occidental explorers being sent to the continent east of Audonia, referred to by the explorers simply as the "eastern land".

Middle seas region
The Middle seas region, also known as the Middle seas, or the Audonio-Alshari Intercontinental Cultural and Economic Interface Zone (AAICEIZ, pronounced eye-kayz), is the areas of eastern Audonia (eastern Siphost and Daria) and western Alshar around the Aab-e-Farus and the Sea of Kandahar. It is so named because of the two seas it contains surrounded by the continental landmasses of Audonia and Alshar, the Aab-e-Farus and the Sea of Kandahar.

History
The Alshari landmass is home to some of the oldest civilizations known to man.