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Persian Gulf


Arm of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and Iran.	1
‡ The Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world.	2
‡ The Persian Gulf region was dominated by Britain for most of the twentieth century. After Britain’s withdrawal in the late 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence in the region. (See Persian Gulf War.)	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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