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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARABIAN

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SEA (anc.
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Mare Erythraeum)  , the name applied to the portion of the
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Indian Ocean bounded E. by
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India, N. by
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Baluchistan and
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part of the
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southern
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Persian littoral, W. by
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Arabia, and S., approximately, by a
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line between Cape Guardafui, the
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north-
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east point of
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Somaliland, and Cape
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Comorin in India . It has two important branches—at the
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south-
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west the Gulf of
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Aden, connecting with the Red
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Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; and at the north-west the Gulf of
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Oman, connecting with the Persian Gulf . Besides these larger ramifications, there are the Gulfs of
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Cambay and Kach on the Indian
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coast . An
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interest and importance belong to this sea as forming part of the
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chief
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highway between
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Europe and India . Its islands are few and insignificant, the chief being
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Sokotra, off the
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African, and the Laccadives, off the Indian coast .

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