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What’s up with the “Arab” Gulf?

I checked my old geography books. Everything from the Twentieth Century tells me that:

  • the Indians have an Ocean,
  • the Arabians have a Sea,
  • and the Persians have a Gulf.

Somebody wanted to change that.   Why?

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