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==Erythraean sea ==
In the old time The Indian ocean and Arabian sea historically and geographically has been referred to with different names by Turks, Persian and Arabs, and others. According to the the book of [[Wilfred Harvey Schoff]] The name of the Erythraean Sea.-By WILFRED H. - jstor1913, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/592840.pdf] oldest text which tells about [[Erythraean Sea]] was [[Herodotus]]
 (484-425BC) after him others also mentioned the name until 18 century [[Herodotus]] was telling about the sea from Babylon to the weast toward (India) it means current Arabian sea and gulf of Oman . but later the total part of Indian ocean was called [[Erythraean Sea]]., in “the Voyage around the Erythraean” first century  called all north part of  [[Indian ocean]] as [[Erythraean Sea]] and also  mentioned the Persian Sea, in para33-34-35.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223335/http://www.scribd.com/doc/8583367/The-Periplus-of-the-Erythraean-Sea],<ref name=Periplus>{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html|title=The Voyage around the Erythraean Sea.para33-35|work=washington.edu}}</ref> .also  in the book  the sea of Erythraeo  by [[Agatharchides]] it was calledof the [[Erythraean Sea]] and then this term applied by Greek and Roman geographers to the Indian Ocean until 18 century and the term was including its adjuncts, the Red Sea and the Persian sea(Gulf) and [[Arabian Sea]] . Erythra means Red, but we are assured by [[Agatharchides]] that it means, not Red Sea, but Sea of King Erythras, following a Persian legend and the island of Erythra. according to the The Histories of [[Herodotus]] book 7 page 785 [[Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian]] were calling the Persians as Erythraean.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/592840.pdf]  [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea/Notes].[https://archive.org/details/geographigraeci03mlgoog/page/n1/mode/1up?view=theater] and Pliny in Natural History 6.96-111. (On India) wrote : XXVIII.(107) Moreover in this region the Erythraean sea then makes a double inroad, into the land; the name given to it by our countrymen is the Red Sea, while the Greeks call it Erythrum, from King Erythras a persian name [https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/pliny-india.asp],related to the [[Ṛta]] or Erta, [[Hr̥tás]],the "truth".
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==Persian sea==
Expert of Geography and cartography in medieval Islam, usually  named it as Persian sea a  vast sea from  Vak Vak island (including Thailand coast and Andaman sea to the west Basra bay and to the red sea. some of them called all body of water in north Indian ocean as the Persian sea (Bahre Fars)  and the south part as Erythraean sea European geographers and travelers, also Differentiated   between Persian sea and Persian Gulf and Indian ocean.
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*Atlas of geographical maps and historical documents about the Persian Gulf from prehistoric times to the present Published by Sahab Institute of Geography and Cartography , 1971 , and 2005 ,[[Tehran]] .
*Atlas of maps"Description of the Persian Gulf in Historical Maps", the Iranology Foundation,[[Tehran]] , 2008.
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