Pictures
Persian Gulf, Kish Island, Daruish Hotel,
Signs
Documents found in Mesr (Egypt)
Maps
Maps found in Cairo, Mesr (Egypt) in 1908 and 1910
Published in “The Times” (London) in 1913. The map is significant in that the Brits at that time published Persian Gulf.
Persian gulf and Persian sea from a Tunisian Atlas.
AL ANKARY (Khaled). La Péninsule Arabique dans les cartes Européennes
Anciennes (The Arabian Peninsula in Old European Maps).
Paris, IMA & K. Al Ankary, 2001
424 pp. avec 260 illustrations en couleurs, cartonnage illustré de l’éditeur.
260 maps with details about each map in 3 languages: Arabic, English and French.
97% of these 260 maps have the correct name of Persian gulf.
Moreover, ten maps have both Persian gulf for the gulf and Persian
sea (for the Sea of Oman).
PERSIAN SEA: One may buy this Atlas online for only 70 Euro
http://www.franceantiq.fr/slam/abencerage/Cat.asp?idTable=Abencerage0204&classe=11
Persian Gulf Fact Sheet – downloadable pdf with maps
Gerhard Mercator’s atlas production in 1578 from Ptolemy’s Geographia clearly depicting Sinus Arabicus(today’s Red Sea) and Persicus Sinus (Persian Gulf)
Originally Posted at http://www.jpmaps.co.uk/images/24552.jpg
Map of the World, Bologna edition of Ptolemy Geographia, 1482
Originally Posted at http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu/map/PTO/IMAGES/1482ulg.jpg
Historical maps and Information on Iran the Persian Gulf:
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~ssaba/iraninfo/info.html
Map of Iran published by National Geographic
Originally Posted at http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/
mapmachine/plates..html?id=7700
Map of West Asia published by United Nations
Originally Posted at http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/westasia.pdf
Map of Iran published by United Nations
Originally Posted at http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/iran.pdf
Map of the Economic and Social Conditions of West Asia published by United Nations
Originally Posted at
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/docs/escwa.pdf
Map of Iran published by Encyclopedia Britannica and posted on Merriam-Webster
Originally Posted at http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/nytmaps.pl?iran
Map of Iran published by MapQuest and posted on HRW World Atlas website
Originally Posted at http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/iran.htm
Map of Persian Gulf region by Microsoft Corp. posted on Expedia website
Originally Posted at http://www.expedia.com
Persia & Afghanistan – 1854 map by S. Hall for possible listing on our website. It is published by A & C Black and clearly depicts the Persian Gulf and the area from the Tigris River in the West to the Indus River in the East from Baldwin maps (http://www.baldwinsmaps.com/maps/926.jpg)
Persian Gulf 1856, illustrating the travels of General Ferrier in Persia and Afghanistan – small version
* Medium sized version
* Full version
Sasanian Empire from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1994
Political Map of the Persian Gulf Region by Latimer Clarke Corporation, 1998
Perry-Castañeda Library Maps, 2003 US Government
* Full version
A map of the Persian Gulf region from 500 B.C.
What Arabs call Persian Gulf:
Map of the Persian Gulf by an Arab publisher
A Saudi Arabian map from MapArt USA, 1996
Several more maps that clearly depict the proper antique names for Persian Gulf and Red Sea (Arabian Gulf):
1832 Delamarche map of Egypt
Originally at: http://www.geographicus.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=G/PROD/PME/Egypt-d-32
1843 Malte-Brun Map of North-Eastern Africa
Originally at: http://www.geographicus.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=G/PROD/PME/AfricaNE-MB-43
1850 Cowperthwait Map of Persia & Arabia (once part of the great 1850 edition of Mitchell’s Universal Atlas)
Originally at: http://www.geographicus.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=G/PROD/PME/Arabia-c-50
Map of Asia by Nuernberg, C. Weigel, 1719
http://www.alte-landkarten.de/htdocs/woda/data/demo/images/14876-01.jpg
Map of Arabia by Sir Robert de Vaugondy in 1752
http://www.alte-landkarten.de/htdocs/woda/data/demo/images/16703-01.jpg
An 1842 German map of Middle East by Landshut, Vogel
http://www.alte-landkarten.de/htdocs/woda/data/demo/images/16704-01.jpg