1884 Perron map STRAIT OF HORMUZ & BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN, #41

Description: Perron09_041 1884 Perron map STRAIT OF HORMUZ & BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN, #41 Nice small map titled Ormuz et Bandar-Abbas, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size approx. 18 x 16 cm, image size approx. 10 x 9.5 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron. Strait of Hormuz, channel linking the Persian Gulf (west) with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea (southeast). The strait is 35 to 60 mi (55 to 95 km) wide and separates Iran (north) from the Arabian Peninsula (south). It contains the islands of Qeshm (Qishm), Hormuz, and Hengam (Henjam) and is of great strategic and economic importance, especially as oil tankers collecting from various ports on the Persian Gulf must pass through the strait. Hormuz Persian Jazireh-ye Hormoz, also called Ormuz, mostly barren, hilly island of Iran on the Strait of Hormuz, between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, 5 miles (8 km) off the coast. The population may decline by half in summer through migration. Hormuz village is the only permanent settlement. Resources include red ochre for export. After the Arab conquest, Hormuz early became the chief market of Kerman, with palm groves, indigo, grain, and spices. By about 1200 it monopolized India's and China's trade. The famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo twice visited Hormuz. Around 1300 the Arab ruler of Hormuz abandoned the mainland because of robbers and founded New Hormuz on the island; it gradually superseded Qeys as the most important Persian Gulf emporium, again becoming a market for India, and dominated other gulf islands and occasionally mainland Oman. In 1514 the Portuguese captured Hormuz and built a fort. For more than a century the island remained Portuguese, but the rise of the English locally and the Persian shah's resentment of Portuguese occupation culminated, in 1622, in Hormuz' capture by joint Anglo-Persian forces. Hormuz, along with the nearby larger island of Jeshun and the mainland port of Bandar ?Abbas, was leased to the rulers of Muscat and Oman between 1798 and 1868. Of the old and famous city scarcely anything now remains except for part of the Portuguese fort. Bandar-e ?Abbas port city on the Strait of Hormuz, the main maritime outlet for much of southern Iran. It lies on the northern shore of Hormuz Bay opposite the islands of Qeshm, Larak, and Hormuz. The inhabitants are mainly Arabs and African blacks. The summer climate is oppressively hot and humid, and many inhabitants then move to cooler places; however, winter is pleasant. Bandar-e ?Abbas (“Port of ?Abbas”) was established in 1623 by Shah ?Abbas I to replace the city of Hormuz, which had been captured by the Portuguese about 1514. During the 17th century it was the main port of Persia, but it lost this status in the 18th century to the rival “Port of Bushehr” (Bandar-e Bushehr). From about 1793 Bandar-e ?Abbas was under lease to the rulers of Muscat, but in 1868 Iran canceled the contract and resumed direct control. The port's imports consist mainly of manufactured goods; its exports include Kerman rugs, petroleum products, and agricultural produce. The town has a cotton mill, a fish cannery, and an oil refinery (opened in 1991). A natural gas refinery was under construction in the mid-1990s. The roadstead is shallow and badly sheltered, and vessels must sometimes lie 4 miles (6.5 km) out. Despite the poor quality of its port facilities, the town boomed during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s when Iran's more westerly ports were threatened. A new harbour and shipbuilding yard were under construction in the late 20th century west of the existing port, and a major rail link was completed in 1995. Pop. (2006) 379,301.

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