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Date: 2022-05-04

Documents on the Persian Gulf's name the eternal heritage ancient time is a book and atlas written and compiled by Dr. M. Ajam. It was published first on 2004. A second edition was published under the supervision of Dr. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh and Dr.Mohammad Hassan Ganji in 2009.the book collects maps and historical documents about the Indian Ocean and its related bays and seas, especially the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. [1]
 
Contents1Awards2Chapter one3Chapter two3.1United Nations Document4Viewpoint of Iran‌ (Persia)5Confession of Arabs scholars6Chapter three7Chapter four8Chapter five9Erythraean sea10Persian sea11Chapter six Documents12Gallery Documents from the Book13Related pages14References15Other websites
Awards[change | change source]
At the eleventh International Festival of Iran's Best Research and Researchers of 2010, this book received the Gold Coin of best Award presented by the Vice President of Iran. This book has received many other awards and numerous other letters of appreciation, among them former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The book was candidate to receive prize of the year book in Iran. The book was considered among the best books in the last 50 years on Persian Gulf issues in Iran. A documentary film titled Persian Gulf's Name in the Course of History has been filmed, mainly based on this book. [2] Part of the book was published in the website the UNGEGN.[9] The book has 6 chapters.


TwoBooks of Dr.Ajam
This book was first published online in 2001.then was published in 2004 in color and a newer version of it was released in 2009. The contents of this book have been repeatedly published in the Persian media. According to the suggestion of this book, the Persian Gulf National Day was registered by the Iranian government in 2005.[10]A summary of the book had been published on the UN website in 2006 under the title:[3] A glance at the Historical, Geographical and Legal Validity of the term. The 2006 UN report prepared by a panel of experts regarding the names
[4] part of the book also had been included in the book “Persian Gulf" by Javad Nourouzi and published into 10 languages : Persian, Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Urdualso a famous documentary film titled Persian Gulf, in the Course of History by Orod Atarpour has been produced and broadcasted in IRIB TV and Press TV mainly based on the document of this book.VOA Voice of America in a documentary named Citizen Observer | roots of the name of the Persian Gulf in historical documents had used several maps and document from this book.
The first chapter covers geographical and political issues of the Persian Gulf, historical recorded documents on the "Persian Gulf" name, the recent Persian Gulf naming dispute, and the 3 Islands.

1-1 The records and description of the Persian Gulf by early Travelers and Geographers, including written description by Muslim travelers and European geographers.
Recorded the 300 historians, travelers and geographers of the Middle Ages, especially those writing in Arabic and Persian from the 9th to the 15th century. According to the book “Documents on the Persian Gulf's Name, the Eternal Heritage of Ancient Time,” the term Persian Gulf and its equivalents have been used continuously since 400 BC in all languages, especially in the Arabic language. 
 
In ancient times usually persian were considering there is a long sea all around the world called(Mohit) the Ocean and from this long round ocean separate two large sea called Persian sea and (Rum ) Mediterranean sea. even in Quran it mentions 2 seas (Bahrain). some other geographer mentioned the world has 7 seas and the most important seas are : Bahr Mohit (ocean) , Persian sea ,Mediterranean sea , Africa sea (Habasha) and china 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, [13] 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 east 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.[14],[18] .also in the book the sea of Erythraeo by Agatharchides it of 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,