Maps of the Persian Gulf

1482 - Map of Ptolemy's Geographia in the Bologna Edition. The Persian Gulf is written in Latin as "Sinvs Persicvs" [Persian Gulf].

1511 - Map of Ptolemy's Geographia by Pentius de Leucho. The Persian Gulf is written in Latin as "Sinvs Persicvs" [Persian Gulf].

1540 - Map of Arabia from the Tabvla Asiae IIII by Sebastian Munster. The Persian Gulf is written in Latin as "Sinvs Persicvs" [Persian Gulf].

1542 - Map of Arabia from the Tabvla Asiae VI by Sebastian Munster. The Persian Gulf is written in Latin as "Sinvs Persicvs" [Persian Gulf]. 

1565 - World Map. The Persian Gulf is written in spanish as "Colfo Persico" [Persian Gulf].

1578 - Map of Ptolemy's Geographia by Gerhard Mercator's Atlas production. The Persian Gulf is written in Latin as "Sinvs Persicvs" [Persian Gulf].

1752 - Map of the Middle East by Sir Robert de Vaugondy.



1767 - Map of Anatolia, from A New Geographical and Historical Grammar by Thomas Salmon.



1831 - Persia and Parts of the Ottoman Empire by G. Long.



1842 - German map of the Middle-East by Landshut Vogel. The Persian Gulf is written in German as "Persischer Meerbusen" [Persian Gulf].



Date unknown - Map of Persia. 

Date Unknown - Map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf is written in Arabic as "Al-Khalij Al-Farsi" [The Persian Gulf].

1965 - Map of the Islamic Caliphate in its greatest extent by Sobhi Abdul-Karim, Cairo. The Persian Gulf is written in Arabic as "Khalij Farsi" [Persian Gulf].

1966 - Arabic map of Saudi Arabia by Map Art USA. The name of the Persian Gulf is written in Arabic as "Bahr Farsi" [Persian Ocean].

1968 - Islamic map of the Arabian Peninsula made by the Egyptian writer Mohamad Hossein. The name of the Persian Gulf is written in Arabic as "Al-Khalij Al-Farsi" [The Persian Gulf].

(Courtesy of PersianGulfOnline.org)