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Ads by Google      Persian Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the 1960s, Persian Gulf Arabs and their states have sometimes referred to the water body as the Arabian Gulf by mistake (which is in fact the ancient name of the Red Sea) but this is not commonly used in English and is not acknowledged by organizations such as the United Nations. The oil-rich Arab countries (excluding Iraq) that have a coastline on the Persian Gulf are referred to as the Gulf States. Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are (clockwise, from the north): Iran, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf   (771 words)      Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Persian Gulf - In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for a "Gulf War" as Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back during what is now predominantly known as the (Persian) Gulf War, despite the fact that this conflict did not focus primarily on the Persian Gulf. Various small islands lie within the Gulf and some are contested between neighbouring states. The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers. http://www.kidsseek.com/encyclopedia-wiki/pe/Persian_Gulf   (281 words)      The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Persian Gulf @ HighBeam Research In 1853, Britain and the Arab sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf signed the Perpetual Maritime Truce, formalizing the temporary truces of 1820 and 1835. PERSIAN GULF [Persian Gulf] arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. The Persian Gulf, called the Arabian Gulf by the Arabs, is mostly shallow and has many islands, of which Bahrain is the largest. http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:PersGulf&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (710 words)      Gulf War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The war with Iran had also seen the destruction of almost all of Iraq's port facilities on the Persian Gulf, cutting off Iraq's main trade outlet. The Gulf War:an in-depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis. A crucial result of the Persian Gulf War, according to Gilles Kepel, was the sharp revival in Islamic extremism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_War   (8989 words)      Persian Gulf Fact Sheet The vast majority of Persian Gulf oil imported by the United States came from Saudi Arabia (71%), with significant amounts also coming from Iraq (19%), Kuwait (9%), and small amounts (less than 1% total) from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. About 30% of Japan's Persian Gulf imports in 2003 came from Saudi Arabia, 29% from the United Arab Emirates, 17% from Iran, 12% from Kuwait, 11% from Qatar, and around 1% from Bahrain and Iraq combined. In 2003, the Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) produced about 27% of the world's oil, while holding 57% (715 billion barrels) of the world's crude oil reserves. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/pgulf.html   (2142 words)      Persian Gulf Online Persian gulf and Persian sea from a Tunisian Atlas. Here is a map of the Persian Gulf by Arab scholar Dr. Hassan Ibrahim Hassan from his book "Political History of Islam" in Arabic. Another Persian Gulf map by an Arab scholar: Persian Gulf in Arab (Islamic) Government by Sobhi Abdul-Karim, Cairo, 1965 http://www.persiangulfonline.org/maps.htm   (738 words)      MSN Encarta - Persian Gulf War Other Arab countries, such as Egypt, Syria, and the smaller states along the Persian Gulf, feared that even if Iraq’s conquests stopped at Kuwait, Iraq could still intimidate the rest of the region. Persian Gulf War, conflict beginning in August 1990, when Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. The conflict culminated in fighting in January and February 1991 between Iraq and an international coalition of forces led by the United States. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551555/Persian_Gulf_War.html   (2102 words)      Persian Gulf Eternally Iranian The unilateral action by the National Geographic Society is deemed as a direct challenge to the Persian Gulf region’s ancient history and civilization. The map of the Persian Gulf by Arab scholar Dr. Hassan Ibrahim Hassan from his book "Political History of Islam" in Arabic. Many believe that the recently coined term “Arabian Gulf” is a politically charged fallacy, which unnecessarily opens up old wounds and a “Pandora’s box” in the region; In fact, the Society’s decision might even lead to political and/or military confrontations. http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1199.html   (2120 words)      Persian Gulf Judaism and Christianity arrived in the gulf from a number of directions: from Jewish and Christian tribes in the Arabian desert; from Ethiopian Christians to the south; and from Mesopotamia, where Jewish and Christian communities flourished under Sassanian rule. Whereas Zoroastrianism seems to have been confined to Persian colonists, Christianity and Judaism were adopted by some Arabs. Thereafter, Ismaili presence in the gulf faded, and in the twentieth century the sect virtually disappeared. http://www.geocities.com/prsn_gulf   (1369 words)      ENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE: 1991 PERSIAN GULF WAR The Persian Gulf, also called the Arabian Gulf by the Arab countries, is a kidney-shaped water body orientated in a northwest to southeast direction. ROPME identified a portion of the Persian Gulf as the ROPME Sea Area and sought help from the international scientific community to determine the impact of the 1991 Gulf War oil spill on the marine environment. The Shatt-al- Arab river, the Gulf's main source of fresh water, flows primarily from Iraq into the northern end of the Gulf. http://employees.oneonta.edu/baumanpr/geosat2/Environmental_Warfare/ENVIRONMENTAL_WARFARE.htm   (4326 words)      The Gulf/2000 Project - SIPA - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY It is designed to make available in a single location a wealth of information on the eight countries of the Persian Gulf region--Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In this site, which has been redesigned in honor of the tenth anniversary, we try to make it easy for the general public and scholars to find background and research materials on the countries of the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf sits on top of the greatest pool of oil reserves in the world. http://gulf2000.columbia.edu   (362 words)      Persian Gulf War Two areas of geography that aided the United States in the war was the desert and the Persian Gulf. The Gulf states where oil deposits were found are Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Another helpful technology involved in the Gulf War was huge deposits of oil discovered in the Middle East around the Persian Gulf after World War II. http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/nph/twt/storm/gulfwar.htm   (922 words)      Persian Gulf States In Danger Of Terrorist Overspill - Forbes.com Persian Gulf States In Danger Of Terrorist Overspill - Forbes.com Persian Gulf States In Danger Of Terrorist Overspill These factors are present to some degree or other in most Gulf States, suggesting the possibility that overspill from conflicts in Saudi Arabia and Iraq may affect the other Gulf Cooperation Council states. http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/business/2005/02/08/cz_0208oxan_gulfstates.html   (1382 words)      Gulf War Bibliography U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. "Thunder in the Gulf." Defense and Diplomacy, 8 (November/December 1990), pp. Jacobs, Richard H. "A chronology of the Gulf War." Arab Studies, 13 (#1-2 1991), pp. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/gulfbib.htm   (13506 words)      Persian Gulf Region Persian Gulf and Iran's Sovereignty over the Tunbs and Abu Musa Islands in Historical Documents - Part I (Iran Daily) Persian Gulf Oil and Gas Exports Fact Sheet (U.S. Department of Energy) Maritime Boundaries in the Persian Gulf: The case of Tunb and Abu Musa Islands http://www.parstimes.com/PG.html   (2165 words)      E:M The Persian Gulf The page we made protesting National Geographic's use of Arabic names for some Iranian islands and for the Persian gulf, is now ranked first in Google, thanks to efforts by Pendar and thousands of Iranian bloggers. Our naming policy on the Persian Gulf is consistent with our cartographic treatment of other parts of the world, such as the body of water between Japan and Korea, for which we show the primary name as the "Sea of Japan," and a secondary alternative name, (East Sea). While National Geographic considers "Persian Gulf" to be the primary name, it has been the Society's cartographic practice to display a secondary name in parentheses when use of such a name has become commonly recognized. http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/012895.shtml   (1558 words)      The History Guy: The Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) Amid growing tension between the two Persian Gulf neighbors, Saddam Hussein concluded that the United States and the rest of the outside world would not interfere to defend Kuwait. Finally, the fallout from the First Persian Gulf War between Iraq and Iran strained relations between Baghdad and Kuwait. Recently declassified military and CIA documents concerning Gulf War Illnesses. http://www.historyguy.com/GulfWar.html   (1929 words)      DEBKAfile - Persian Gulf Today, a CIA document is reported that, in the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein contemplated a biological attack but gave it up when three Iraqi air force Mig warplanes sent to test the opposition’s defensives were downed over the Persian Gulf. From back stage of al Qaeda’s Iraq and Saudi theaters, the Gulf emirates have been promoted to al Qaeda’s prime target for Islamist terror on a par with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The 39 Scud surface missiles that Iraq fired at Israel in 1991 carried conventional warheads. http://www.debka.com/section.php?cid=10   (1101 words)      Persian Gulf The area of the Persian Gulf has slowly decreased during the last 6,000 years, when most of Kuwait and lower Iraq were part of the total basin. Through the Strait of Hormuz, the gulf is connected to Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. While oil spills from the heavy traffic of oil tankers over years have been serious enough, oil spills from 1983, during the Iran-Iraq War, and in 1991, during the Gulf War, have been catastrophic. http://i-cias.com/e.o/pers_glf.htm   (253 words)      Persian Gulf naming dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the United States, Persian Gulf has been the label sanctioned for U.S. government use since a decision by the State Department's Board of Geographical Names in 1917. But by the 1960s and with the rise of Arab nationalism, some Arab countries, including the ones bordering the Persian Gulf, adopted widespread use of the term "الخليج العربي" (al-Khaleej al-Arabee; Arab Gulf or Arabian Gulf) to refer to this waterway; this is the standard usage in modern Arabic. Since the 1960s, there has been movement in some Arab countries to refer to the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf", and it has become an ongoing naming dispute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_over_the_name_of_the_Persian_Gulf   (930 words)      Captain Joyce Riley : Gulf War Syndrome Part of the cover-up involved with Gulf War syndrome is also meant to conceal the fact that President Bush and other members of his administration held stock in some of the biotech companies that produced the biological weapons used against U.S. troops and shipped to Iraq. I was in Connecticut doing a radio show on the Gulf War issue, and I was taking a break for a commercial, when all of a sudden CBS radio comes over the main feed and says, "the Gulf War illness is found to be helped by the antibiotic Doxycycline." I couldn't believe it. Some Gulf War veterans have called me and have said that they are bleeding from every part of their body. http://www.all-natural.com/riley.html   (9007 words)      Persian Gulf will remain persian Petition It is a proven scholarly fact that the name of the Persian Gulf is a genuine name, with historical roots, and using any fraudulent names such as the “Arabian Gulf”, and islands “Occupied by Iran” is in fact inducing political animosity. The Persian Gulf will remain persian Petition to National Geographic Society was created by PersianBlog Community and written by Mehdi Boutorabi (PersianGulf@PersianBlog.com). This letter is in concern of publication of a map by your organization, which, according to all international organizations, is fraudulent and distorted, and its publication guarantees the violation of undeniable international legal rights. http://www.petitiononline.com/persian/petition.html   (230 words)      The Persian Gulf Dot Org - Information, History, and Resources of the Persian Gulf The National Iranian American Council (www.niacouncil.org) launched a public media education campaign to raise awareness among key influential media on the history of the Persian Gulf, and politically motivated efforts to change the name of the waters. The Persian Gulf is a waterway that stretches far back into history, it was from its shores that the mighty Persian Empire, the worlds first and greatest civilisation, rose to conquer what was then, the known world. This website is dedicated to promoting an understanding of the Persian Gulf, its history, its name and the countries, islands and cities that are bound to it. http://www.thepersiangulf.org   (282 words)      Persian Gulf Dear Friends @ CNW TELBEC,I noted that you have used the wrong term of "Arabian Gulf" instead of the historical and internationally recognized term of the Persian Gulf in your Web site;http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/February2005/21/c6848.html I would like to point out that according to all historical/geographical documents, also United Nations' directives, the name of this waterway which separates Iran (Persia) from Arabian Peninsula is the PERSIAN GULF : PERSIAN GULF is also the only term used by the U.S. Departmentof State: http://persiangulfforever.blogspot.com   (365 words)      Persian Gulf War, 1991 Saddam Hussein denounced Gulf states for their low oil price conspiracy which rendered it impossible for Iraq to repay its Iran war debts CIA Support to the US Military During the Persian Gulf War (CIA site; includes Iraq Orbat) Persian Gulf War, 1991, by War, Peace and Security Guides. http://www.regiments.org/wars/20thcent/91gulf.htm   (898 words)      Iran - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Iran Khatami in May 1999 paid a ground-breaking visit to Saudi Arabia, ending the longest hostility between Iran and its Arab Gulf neighbours. Country in southwest Asia, bounded north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan; east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; south and southwest by the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf; west by Iraq; and northwest by Turkey. During the Kurdish refugee crisis that followed the Gulf War, Iran took in nearly 1 million Kurds, accusing the USA and relief agencies of their neglect. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Iran   (2743 words)      Khuzestan Encyclopedia During the early years of the reign of Shapur II (309 or 310-379 A.D.), Arabs crossed the Persian Gulf from Bahrain to "Ardashir-Korra" of Fars and raided the interior. Saddam's absolute and particularly bloody rule lasted throughout the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), which ended in stalemate; the al-Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, which led to the alleged gassing of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq; Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 resulting in the Gulf War; and the United Nations-imposed economic sanctions. Khuzestan (خوزستان in Persian) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. http://empathic.en.ogarnij.info/en/Khuzestan   (10370 words)      FToI: From caring about our national pride to Anti-Arab racism Persian Gulf, has been recognized as the real and rightful nomenclature not only by all ancient and past writers and historical nations but also by all modern international organizations and Int. Iranians didn't name it "Persian Gulf" to begin with, if anything they should be asking National Geographic to name it "Khalij-e Fars" but that doesn't wash either because the Arabs have called it "Al-Khalij al Arabiyah" for just as long if not longer. Is the name Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf? http://freethoughts.org/archives/000663.php   (17246 words)      National Geographic's Statement on Persian Gulf Our naming policy on the Persian Gulf is consistent with our cartographic treatment of other parts of the world, such as the body of water between Japan and Korea, for which we show the primary name as the "Sea of Japan," and a secondary alternative name, (East Sea). While National Geographic considers "Persian Gulf" to be the primary name, it has been the Society's cartographic practice to display a secondary name in parentheses when use of such a name has become commonly recognized. The Arabian Gulf is recognized as a variant naming of the Persian Gulf by many such entities. http://www.payvand.com/news/04/nov/1224.html   (496 words)

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