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Ormus, Kingdom of
The Kingdom of Ormus is a tenth to seventeenth century kingdom located within the Persian Gulf and extending as far as the Strait of Hormuz.
The Kingdom is established by Arab princes in the tenth century who in 1262 come under the suzerainty of Persia, before becoming a client state of the Portuguese Empire.The kingdom receives its name from the fortified port city that serves as its capital.
It is one of the most important ports in the Middle East at this time as it controls seaway trading routes through the Persian Gulf to India and East Africa.
This port is probably located on Hormuz Island, which is located near the modern city of Bandar-e Abbas.The name of the port, the island, and the kingdom is Iranian and ultimately derives from that of the Zoroastrian deity, Ahura Mazda, which becomes Ohrmazd in Pahlavi, Hirmiz in Manichaean Middle Persian, and Hormoz in New-Persian.The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest.
On the north coast is Iran and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an exclave of Oman.
Member Cities
- Aden `Adan Yemen Location
- Ahmedabad > Ahmadabad Gujarat India Location
- Anjadip Island Goa India Location
- Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt Location
- Calicut Kerala India Location
- Cannanore Kerala India Location
- Cape Town (Kaapstad) Western Cape South Africa Location
- Chaul Maharashtra India Location
- Cochin > Kochi Kerala India Location
- Diu Daman and Diu India Location
- Hadibu `Adan Yemen Location
- Island of Mozambique > Ilha de Moçambique Nampula Mozambique Location
- Jiddah Makkah Saudi Arabia Location
- Kamaran Shabwah Yemen Location
- Khor Fakkan > Khawr Fakkan Ash Shariqah United Arab Emirates Location
- Kilwa Kisiwani Lindi Tanzania Location
- Kodungallur > Cranganore Kerala India Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Malaka > Melaka > Malacca Melaka Malaysia Location
- Malindi Coast Kenya Location
- Mombasa Coast Kenya Location
- Muscat > Masqat Masqat Oman Location
- Nova Goa > Panaji Goa India Location
- Ormus (?) > Hormuz Island Iran Location
- Ponnani Kerala India Location
- Praia Praia Cape Verde Location
- Qal'at al-Bahrain Bahrain Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Sohar Al-Batinah Oman Location
- Suez > As-Suways As-Suways Egypt Location
- Zanzibar Zanzibar Urban/West Tanzania Location