The goal, according to the Libyan press, would be to assemble an army of one million men and women fighters to prepare for the great Arab battle – “ the battle of liberating Palestine, of toppling the reactionary regimes, of annihilating the borders, gates, and barriers between the countries of the Arab homeland, and of creating the single Arab Jamahiriya from the ocean to the gulf ”.

The Gulf of Venice is a gulf that borders modern day Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, and is at the north of the Adriatic Sea between the delta of the Po river in northern Italy and the Istria peninsula in Croatia.

It is the part of the Eurasian Plate wedged between the Arabian and Indian plates, situated between the Zagros mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Kopet Dag to the north, the Hormuz Strait and Persian gulf to the south and the Indus River to the east in Pakistan.

The International Hydrographic Organization refers to the gulf as the " Gulf of Iran ( Persian Gulf )", and defines its southern limit as " The Northwestern limit of Gulf of Oman ".

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

The name of the gulf, historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf after the land of Persia ( Iran ), has been disputed by some Arab countries since the 1960s.

Even dolphins that frequent the gulf in northern waters, around Iran are at serious risk.

The world's largest oil spill, estimated at as much as, fouled gulf waters and the coastal areas of Kuwait, Iran, and much of Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf shoreline.

The Gulf of Basra or bay of Basra is a small bay inlet of the Persian Gulf on the end and west coast of Persian gulf bordering Iran and Iraq and Kuwait it sometimes called bay of Basra.

Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

Cylipenus, probably the Bay of Kiel, is described, and from there a gulf called Lagnus, which is on the frontier of the Cimbri.

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

The loggerhead turtle nests and hatches on north-coast beaches around Rethymno and Chania, and south-coast beaches along the gulf of Mesara.

In the east, the gulf ends with Neva Bay and on the west merges with the Baltic Sea.

Morocco's identity as an Arab Muslim state has also strengthened ties with the gulf countries as a result of 9 / 11 and the " war on terror ".

Siraf, an ancient Sassanid port that was located on the northern shore of the gulf, located in what is now the Iranian province of Bushehr, is an example of such commercial port.

A great example of this symbiosis are the mangroves in the gulf, which require tidal flow and a combination of fresh and salt water for growth, and act as nurseries for many crabs, small fish, and insects ; these fish and insects are the source of food for many of the marine birds that feed on them.

They are as crucial an indicator of biological health on the surface of the water, as the corals are to biological health of the gulf in deeper waters.

* Documents on the Persian gulf

Only the construction of long moles at Ras Tanura has opened the Saudi coast on the gulf to seagoing tankers.

* Abu Dhabi Defence Force-Drawing on tremendous oil wealth accumulated in the early 1960s, the Emir of Abu Dhabi gave high priority to the development of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force ( ADDF ) when the British withdrawal from the gulf was announced.

The existence of the name in southern Utah, United States, and on the gulf coast of Mexico, has given rise to theories of other locations and wider bounds for the old Indian empire.

The coastline on the gulf includes the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Bonny.

The Gulf of Aden (, ) is a gulf located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.

Historically the Gulf of Aden was known as " The Gulf of Berbera ", named after the ancient Somali port city of Berbera on the south-side of the gulf.

The gulf is bounded on the north by the Labrador Peninsula, to the east by Newfoundland, to the south by the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, and to the west by the Gaspé and New Brunswick.

It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name ( Gulf of Edremit ), with its town center a few kilometers inland, and is an important center of trade, along with the other towns that are situated on the same gulf ( namely Ayvalık, Gömeç, Burhaniye and Havran ).

Harrisse believed the large estuary just west of the line on the Cantino map was that of the Rio Maranhão ( this estuary is now the Baía de São Marcos and the river is now the Mearim ), whose flow is so weak that its gulf does not contain fresh water.

This map depicts the current rivers and coastline and certain features have changed over the years, notably Miletus, Heracleia, and Myus were on the south side of a gulf and Priene on the north side ; the river Maeander has since filled in the gulf.

The largest rivers flowing into the gulf are Neva ( from the east ), Narva ( from the south ), and Kymi ( from the north ).

In the north is the Ad Dibdibah graveled plain and in the south the ' Al Jafurah sand desert, which reaches the gulf near Dhahran and merges with the Rub al Khali at its southern end.

The ' Al Jubayl community harbor and Abu Ali Island, which juts into the gulf immediately north of ' Al Jubayl, experienced the greatest pollution, with the main effect of the spill concentrated in mangrove areas and shrimp grounds.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

Large numbers of dugongs live to the north of the Northern Territory, with a population of over 20, 000 in the gulf of Carpentaria alone.

Acarnania () is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth.

The four zones consisted of Mesopotamia in the west, the Caucasus region in the north, the Persian gulf in the central and southwest region, and Central Asia in the east.

* Gulf of Mikoyan, a gulf in the Arctic Ocean north of the Bolshevik Island

Bays in the gulf include Phaleron Bay, Elefsina Bay to the north, Kechries Bay in the northwest and Sofiko Bay in the east.

A much larger but still narrow medial area is drained southwestward by the Colorado River to the head of the Gulf of California, where this large and very turbid river has formed the extensive Colorado River Delta, north of which the former head of the gulf is now cut off from the sea and laid bare by evaporation as a plain below sea-level.

Into the gulf flow a number of rivers from both sides ; consequently, a salinity gradient exists from north to south.

There was a canal from the Nile delta to the Gulf of Suez in ancient times, when the gulf extended further north than it does today.

In the meantime, another Russian contingent — 5, 000 men under Barclay de Tolly — endured great hardships in crossing the frozen gulf further north: they entered Umeå on March 24.

When a letter from Gen. Scott to Taylor telling of the transfer of the bulk of Taylor's army to the gulf fell into Mexican hands, Santa Anna quickly marched north to try to knock Taylor out of Mexico while U. S. forces were being withdrawn.

* Twid Ndé, Tú ’ é ' diné Ndé (" Tough People of the Desert ", " No Water People "): moved north and therefore away from the gulf area, later they lived between the Rio Grande and the Pecos River, near the juncture of the two.

When the Peloponnesian fleet began moving along the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, however, aiming to cross over to Acarnania, the Athenians followed along the north shore and attacked them once they passed out of the Gulf into the open sea and attempted to cross from the south to the north.

The South Australian gulf drainage division is the area surrounding the Gulf St Vincent and Spencer Gulf and a sliver of country to the immediate north.

While waters falling to the north and west flow inland and dissipate into the sands and ephemeral salt lakes of the central Australian deserts, waters falling on the South Australian gulf drainage division flow south to the sea.

The gulf is part of the Pacific Ocean, which it joins to the north and east.