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Publication
of Historical Maps of the Persian Gulf in
Tehran
By:
Pejman Akbarzadeh (Persian Gulf Organization's Rep. in
Tehran
)
According
to historical and geographical documents and United Nations directives,
the name of the waterway between the
Persia
(
Iran
) and the Arabian Peninsula is the
Persian Gulf
. Since the 1960s, with the rise of Arab nationalism, serious
efforts to change the historical name of this waterway began. These
efforts and the Persians resistance in the face of it, in the autumn of
2004, reached a peak when the National Geographic Society published a
fake term in parenthesis below the name
Persian Gulf
. After a few months of heavy protests by Persians (Iranians),
followed by partial success, the 18th Tehran International Book Fair
devoted a pavilion for presenting the historical maps of the
Persian Gulf
. An extensive report of this event, written by this author, was
published in the Persian-language daily "Shargh" (No.486, May
27, 2005/ 7 Khordad 1384. For this occasion, albeit with a few
months delay, a precious book containing 123 historical maps of the
Persian Gulf region has been published by the Sahab Geographic and
Drafting Institute in
Tehran
.
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