The Gulf of Aden (Arabic: خليج عدن, Somali: Gacanka Cadmeed ???????????????????? ????????????????????) is a deepwater gulf between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channel, Socotra and Somalia to the south. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and it connects with the Arabian Sea to the east.

The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana …

The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, separating the country's European and Asian part. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Black Sea and the Dardanelles strait to the Aegean Sea. The former also separates Istanbul's European and Asian side.

Aden (UK: / ˈ eɪ d ən / AY-dən, US: / ˈ ɑː d ɛ n / AH-den; Arabic: عدن ʿAdin / ʿAdan Yemeni: [ˈʕæden, ˈʕædæn]) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some 170 km (110 mi) east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb.Its population is approximately 800,000 people. Aden's natural harbour lies in the crater ...

The Gulf of Bothnia (/ ˈ b ɒ θ n i ə /; Finnish: Pohjanlahti; Swedish: Bottniska viken), divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast (East Bothnia) and Sweden's east coast (West Bothnia and North Bothnia).In the south of the gulf lies Åland, between the Sea of Åland and the Archipelago Sea

The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries led by Saudi Arabia proclaimed an oil embargo.The embargo was targeted at nations that had supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The initial nations targeted were Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United …

He recaptured Aden in 1548 from the Portuguese, thus securing the Red Sea. Three years later he sailed out from Suez again with 30 ships and the goal of wresting Hormuz Island, the key to the Persian Gulf, from Portugal. Piri Reis captured Muscat on his way, therefore extending Ottoman authority as far as Oman. He laid siege to Hormuz but was ...

The southeastern Persian Gulf coast was called the "Pirate Coast" by the British, who argued that raiders based there—particularly the 'Qawasim' or 'Joasmees', now known as the Al Qasimi (the ruling families of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah)—harassed British-flagged shipping.. The first in a long series of maritime skirmishes between the Al Qasimi and British vessels took place in …