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Persian Gulf

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The sea that separates the Arabian peninsula from Iran.

Names

  • الخليج الفارسي5
  • بحر فارس4
  • Persian gulf2
  • Persian Gulf1
  • The Gulf

Place Type

open-water

Location

  • Coordinates (representative):
    • Lat. 27.0000001° Long. 50.9999999°3
  • Within Beth Qaṭraye.

Attestations

Attestation of name الخليج الفارسي in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.

الخليج الفارسي5 5

Attestation of name بحر فارس in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

بحر فارس4 4
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See Also

Works Cited

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  • 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, map: Map I D3, II D3.
  • 2 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Persian gulf.
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29713," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 408.
  • 5 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 84.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Persian Gulf” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/156.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Persian Gulf.” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/156.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Persian Gulf

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
  • Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
  • Thomas A. Carlson, entry contributor, “Persian Gulf”

Additional Credit:

  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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