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Crosswords: Persian Gulf |
| English words defined with "Persian Gulf": Arabia, Arabian Peninsula ♦ Bahrain, Bahrain Island, Bahrein, Bahrein Island, Balochi, Baluchi ♦ capital of Kuwait ♦ Dubai ♦ Euphrates, Euphrates River ♦ Garookuh, Gulf of Oman ♦ Indian red ♦ Katar, Katar Peninsula, Koweit, Kuwait, Kuwait City ♦ Persian Gulf War ♦ Qatar, Qatar Peninsula ♦ State of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Persian Gulf": Dedan ♦ O'man's Sea ♦ sabkha, Selama, Sephar, Sheba. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Persian Gulf (sometimes Arabian Gulf, sometimes shortened to just the Gulf to avoid debate) is an extension of the Arabian Sea in between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. This inland sea of some 233,000 km² is connected to the Arabian Sea in the east by the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, and its western end is marked by the major river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, called Arvand-Rood by Iranians, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris.
The Greek name for this body of water - the "Persian Gulf" - has been in use since ancient times, for it signifies the first major nation-state in that area, namely the Persian Empire (now Iran). In the 1960s, with the rise of Arab nationalism, Arab countries began to call the gulf the "Arabian Gulf". However, the Iranian government led two resolutions in the United Nations to officially recognize that body of water as the "Persian Gulf". The first announcement was made through the document UNAD, 311/Qen on March 5, 1971 and the second was UNLA 45.8.2 (C) on August 10, 1984. Most countries and organizations use the name "Persian Gulf". Arab countries tend to use the term "Arabian Gulf", while others stay neutral and say "the Gulf".
Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are (clockwise, from the southeast): United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest, and Iran in the north. The Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the largest single source of crude oil and related industries dominates the region. Various small islands lie within the Gulf and some are contested between neighbouring states.
The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers. In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for a "Gulf War" as Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back during what is now predominantly known as the (Persian) Gulf War, despite the fact that this conflict did not focus primarily on the Persian Gulf.
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 | Persian Gulf.Credit: NASA. |  | A Combat Videographer with the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., documents aircraft operations in the Persian Gulf Region Oct. 19. She is part of the coalition force here to support Operation Southern Watch, a military effort to. |
 | Transiting the Suez Canal, en route to the Persian Gulf to support Operation "Desert Shield", 8 August 1990. Photographed by PH3 Frank A. Marquart. Note ferry crossing, with waiting vehicles, in the center background.Credit: NAVY. |  | President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and Navy, reviews officers of the Persian Gulf Command at Camp Amirabad.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indian riflemen take over Iranian refinery, Iran. A detachment of Indian riflemen march into the world's largest oil refinery on island of Aradian, at the head of the Persian Gulf, after the short, brief battle with the Iranian forces defending it / Acme.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Desert storm/shield--Service in the Persian Gulf / W.E. Duke.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The UAE has a coastline and seaports inside as well as outside the Straits of Hormuz, which is the entrance to the Persian Gulf. The total area of the UAE is about the size of Maine comprising of seven emirates, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Qaiwain, Fujeirah, and Ras Al Khaimah. (references) | |
Children | Bahrain | The regional (Persian Gulf) Center for the Treatment of the Blind is headquartered in the country, and a similar Center for the Education of Deaf Children was established in 1994. Society tends to view persons with disabilities as special cases in need of protection rather than as fully functioning members of society. (references) |
Economic History | Comoros | Over the centuries, the islands were invaded by a succession of diverse groups from the coast of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Indonesia, and Madagascar. (references) |
Oman | Although Oman enjoys a high degree of internal stability, regional tensions in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war and the Iran-Iraq war continue to necessitate large defense expenditures. (references) | |
Political Economy | Yemen | Remittances from citizens working abroad (primarily in Saudi Arabia and other Arab Persian Gulf states) also are important. (references) |
Oman | Oman is strategically located at the entrance to the Persian Gulf opposite Iran. (references) | |
Thailand | On the security front, there have been strong ties since the end of World War II. Thailand, one of America's five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific region, sent troops to Korea and Vietnam, provided strong support for our efforts in the Persian Gulf, and played a leading role in the East Timor peacekeeping operation. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | Many boys, some of whom are as young as age 4, are trafficked to West Asia or the Persian Gulf States (especially the United Arab Emirates), and end up as camel jockeys in camel races. (references) |
India | Girls and women are trafficked to the Persian Gulf States to work as domestic workers or sex workers. (references) | |
Indonesia | Host countries include Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Korea, and the Persian Gulf states. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Japan, Australia, and New Zealand have given us strong support in developing a strategy for responding to instability in the Persian Gulf. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I have witnessed the bloody futility of two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. |
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Expressions using "Persian Gulf": Persian Gulf Syndrome ♦ persian gulf war. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Persian Gulf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | Persiese Golf (Persian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjiri persik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Perzische Golf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Persa Golfo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | golfe Persique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περσικόσ κόλποσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Giau Vooar ny Pershey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersianpay ulfgay персидский залив. (various references) golfo pérsico. (various references) basra körfezi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pleasuring. | |
-2 letters: finaglers, fireplugs, frauleins, graplines, perfusing, purflings, relapsing, repulsing, spanglier, superlain. | |
-3 letters: aligners, argufies, earplugs, elapsing, engrails, failures, feruling, finagler, finagles, firepans, fireplug, flaneurs, flangers, flareups, flingers, fraulein, funerals, granules, grapline, graplins, grapnels, graupels, gunfires, infrugal, nargiles, panfries, pearling, perusing, plaguers, pleasing, plungers, pralines, purfling, purlines, purslane, realigns, refusing, signaler, singular, slangier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 73 69 61 6E 47 75 6C 66 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000111 01110101 01101100 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r s i a n   G u l f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0073 0069 0061 006E 0047 0075 006C 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50718485756780241877872 |
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