News Serach :   From :   To :   The Persian Gulf Trade in Late Antiquity The Persians made themselves important in world history with the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century B.C.E. Their rise and center of power was from the province of Fars (Pars/ Persis) in the southwestern region of the Iranian plateau. Consequently in the Greek sources, the body of water that bordered this province came to be known as the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf in the Geographical Views of the Ancient World Though the main thrust of this seminar is the study of the cartography of the Persian Gulf aimed at the production of an atlas of the cartography of the Persian Gulf in 16 to 18 centuries, I think the evolutionary process of the study requires an introduction to the emergence of image making of the Persian Gulf in mapping of the earth’s su rface from the earliest times to the age of modernity IRGC official: Persian Gulf security is for all or none Persian Gulf security is for all or for none, said Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for Political Affairs, Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, here on Sunday Persian Sea in the Avesta, Pahlavi texts and the Shahnameh The word "darya" (sea) appears in the Avesta as "zarayangeh" and it refers to a body of water that is called in the Avesta as "Va'ooru-kash". This word consists of two parts: the first part is "va'ooru", meaning "full and many", while the last part is "kash", meaning "border and shore". Thus, the word in full means "many-shored". In Pahlavi literature, this word is transformed into "Faraakh-o kart". The first segment, "faraakh", is the same as in Persian, meaning "vast". The ending is �kart" or "kash" or "kasheh". This combination also means "many-shored" and "vast-bordered" and in Persian, it has changed into "Farakh-kard"! In Search of Ancient Seafarers in the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf and the adjacent regions of the Makran Sea (today known as sea of Oman) and Indian Ocean is an area of the world with a seafaring tradition of over 5,000 years in age, yet which has gone essentially unexplored beneath the waves. In fact, the South and Southwest Asian regions, and the Persian Gulf area in particular, have perhaps the richest and longest running seafaring tradition of any world region. PERSIAN GULF & IRAN'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE TUNBS & ABU MUSÂ IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS The Persian Gulf is a crescent-shape groove which has demonstrated the encroachment of the Indian Ocean waters (Makrân Sea, also known as Gulf of Oman) in an span of 900 km long and 240 km wide in the inferior folds of southern Zagros mountains. The Persian Gulf and its neighboring countries constitute almost one ninth of the 44 million square km span of the Asian continent (1). The Persian Gulf has been a valuable waterway since the beginning of history and as the venue of the collision of great civilizations of the ancient East, it has a background of several millenniums Persian Gulf: A Name for All Seasons This article is substantially based on a book by by Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh, Nam-e Khalij-e Fars dar Derazay-e Tarikh (The Name of the Persian Gulf throughout the History), Sayeroshan Publication, Tehran, December 2004. The original version of the book was Joghraphyay-e Tarikhiy-e Khalij-e Fars (Historical Geography of the Persian Gulf), Tehran University Publication, Series No. 1492, Tehran 1975. Iranians the Pioneers of Navigation in the Persian gulf According to the writings of the ancient Greek, including Herodotus, and to the allusions made in the Aristotle's book on politics, ancient Iranians were the first great navigators of the world. They not only discovered and marked the sea routes from estuary of Sind river up to the Persian Gulf, but, as is testified by the Greeks' writings, the first person who embarked on an exploratory voyage round Africa, was an Iranian navigator by the name of Sataspes. In this article, reference is made to the existing documents and evidence regarding pioneering role of Iranians in navigation and to the rejection of Westerners' role according to which this enterprise is attributed to Alexander. How Was a False Name for Persian Gulf Fabricated? The historical name of the Persian Gulf is a familiar name for all the countries in the world, particularly the countries of Middle East. Commenting on the issue, Egyptian Dr. Mostafa Alfaqi said: "In the decade of the 1950s, the cabinet of Iran's then prime minister Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq was overthrown and his foreign minister Dr Hossein Fatemi was killed. The Shah, with his tense relations with Iraq on the Arvand-Roud (Shatt-ul-Arab) assumed the role of the region's gendarme in opposition to the government of Jamal Abdel Nasser The Persian Gulf under Name Attack Again! Today (01-Dec-2009) the Daily Telegraph has published an article on its website changing the name of Persian Gulf in favor of Arab plot against our country Please see Conspiracy to change a heritage name The Persian Gulf Historical and unique name of The Persian Gulf and its equivalents in different languages has been continuously in used since 3000 years ago in all languages, cultures, and all civilizations throughout the centuries and across the world. More than 2000 ancient literatures, books and maps belong to the past three millenniums, which contain this historical and heritage name are proof to the Persian Gulf as the right nomenclature The Persian Gulf and its name The historical name of the Persian Gulf is a familiar name for all the countries in the world, particularly the countries of Middle East. Commenting on the issue, Egyptian Dr. Mostafa Alfaqi said Pan Arabism's Legacy Few Iranians (or westerners) have heard of Pan-Arab nationalists such as Satia Al-Husri, Sami Shawkat, Michel Aflaq or Khairallah Tulfah. Their version of Arab nationalism is as anti-Western as it is anti-Persian. The philosophies of these men have done much to inspire generations of Arab leaders such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, who passionately advocated the changing of the Persian Gulf to "Arab G/u/l/f", or Saddam Hussein, who defined his Arabism by the extent of his brutality against Iranians (Kurds, Persians, Azeris , Turkmens , armenis , tajiks baluchs, etc.). history of abu musa and the tunbs The British Government's announcement in January 1968 of its decision of terminating Pax-Britannica in the Persian Gulf caused a sense of urgency for closer cooperation among regional states. Settlement of territorial and boundary differences thus, became a necessity, especially in the offshore areas where exploitation of new oilfields was expanding rapidly. EU-GCC resolution main source of encouragement for attack on Iranian fishing boat in Persian Gulf Clearly the EU-GCC resolution of 19 May 2004 was the main source of encouragement for Abu Dhabi to commit the armed assault on the Iranian boat in the territorial waters of Abu Musa on Thursday June 3rd 2004, in spite of the fact that Abu Musa's territorial waters are under joint Iranian-Sharjah Sovereignty. The UAE assault was an aggressive act designed to trigger a chain reaction that would overthrow regional peace and stability that was achieved through years of Arab-Iranian hard work and cooperation [First] [1] [2] [Last]