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persian gulf
Welcome to thepersiangulf.org.
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.
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. By its shores, the
ships of the ancient world traded, and paid homage to the
mighty Empire for whom this Gulf was named.
When the armies of the
Macedonian King Alexander rampaged through the Orient, he
stopped at the Persian Gulf, and believed it to be the end of
the world. The river Oceanus he thought, circled the world from
here, to the Caspian and then onto the Mediterranean.
Witness to thousands of years of civilisation, war, success and
tragedy, the Persian Gulf entered the modern era becoming the
worlds largest source of fossil fuels and thus enshrining its
importance as the worlds most strategic waterway.
In recent years, revisionism from certain groups has seen an
attempt to change the name and history of this ancient gulf.
This site, like many others, seeks to preserve the history and
the heritage of the Persian Gulf, and to prevent Pan Arabist
dreams of eradicating Persia from the history books.
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