Hormuz - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Hormuz - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Matthee, Rudolph P.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061930
Doc. NO	:	ALei2327
Main Entry	:	Matthee, Rudolph P.
Title & Author	:	Hormuz - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Matthee, Rudolph P.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,712 words)
Abstract	:	The name Hormuz (Pers., Hurmuz) refers to a cluster of settlements, including a port, on the Persian Gulf coast of Iran and to an island of forty-two square kilometres less than ten kilometres from the mainland and some twenty-five kilometres northeast of the island of Qishm. Archaeological evidence along the coast has revealed a prehistoric settlement, which the Greeks knew as Organa. Trade in the area is recorded in the first millennium BCE and possibly much earlier. 1. Hormuz before the Ṣafavids The port of Hormuz, located some
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2327.pdf