KUNMING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A series of ancient maps drawn by Persian and Arabian geographers from the ninth to 17th centuries show the disputed waters and islands of the South China Sea have been ...

One of the authors, scholar Mohammad-Hassan Ganji, delivered the first speech of the ceremony. “Since the ancient times, those who knew the world have called ‘Persian Gulf’ the water passageway which ...

An Iranian woman sits on the southern beach on the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf about 777 miles (1,250 kilometers) south of Tehran. Reuters Iranian Netizens are expressing anger over Google Maps ...

Spats over naming have cropped up from "Malvinas" to "Derry" to "Kampuchea" Iran's Foreign Ministry says Google is being used by the nation's enemies Iran is taking on one of the world’s biggest ...

It might have been mentioned by ancient cartographers and can be found on almost any atlas, but the Persian Gulf, a source of national pride for Iranians, has no place on Google Maps. In a rare show ...

The institute has organized the exhibit to celebrate National Persian Gulf Day, which is April 30 this year, the institute announced in a press release on Thursday. The collection consists of 50 maps ...

Keeping the world’s most vital oil-exporting waterway named “Persian” is a national touchstone and highly emotive issue for Iranians. So there has been widespread anger in Iran in recent days after ...

The Commander of Iran's Navy, Habibulah Sayari, pointing to a map while describing plans for naval exercises in late December 2011. No doubt words over the part of the map separating the Iran Plateau ...

Google is under fire again due to a change it made on Google Maps, as the application has updated the maps to indicate that the Persian Gulf is also referred to as the Arabian Gulf. The change ...

The decision followed a storm of criticism on social media. Muscat, Oman: Oman Air has switched off an inflight map system that labelled the waterway between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, the ...

A series of ancient maps drawn by Persian and Arabian geographers from the ninth to 17th centuries show the disputed waters and islands of the South China Sea have been Chinese territory since ancient ...