Look up Hormuz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hormuz /hɔːrˈmuːz/ is derived from the Persian Ohrmuzd, meaning Ahura Mazda. It may refer to: The Strait...
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The Strait of Hormuz (/hɔːrˈmuːz/ Persian: تنگهٔ هُرمُز Tangeh-ye Hormoz listen, Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf...
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Hormuz Island (/hɔːrˈmuːz/; Persian: جزیره هرمز, romanized: Jazireh-ye Hormoz), also spelled Ormus, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Located...
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Ormus (redirect from Kingdom of Hormuz)
The Kingdom of Ormus (also known as Hormoz or Hormuz; Persian: هرمز; Portuguese: Ormuz) was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended...
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Hormuz-2 (missile) (Persian: موشک هرمز-2) is an Iranian naval (strike) ballistic missile which is able to hit floating-targets at sea with high accuracy...
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The City of HormuzArdeshir (Persian: شهرستان هرمزاردشیر) is a Sassanid-era Persian archaeological remain. It is now located in the Khuzestan province in...
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Choke point (section Threats to the Strait of Hormuz)
Some choke points, with important locations in parentheses: Strait of Hormuz between Oman and Iran at the entrance to the Persian Gulf Bab-el-Mandeb...
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Hormuz-1 (Persian: موشک هرمز-۱) is an Iranian anti-radar ballistic missile which has the capability of destroying radars on aircraft carriers, Patriot...
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Battle of the Strait of Hormuz or battle off Hormuz may refer to: Portuguese conquest of Ormuz (1507) Ottoman campaign against Hormuz (1552–1554) Battle of...
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Albuquerque landed on the Hormuz. Portugal occupied Hormuz from 1515 to 1622. As a vassal of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Hormuz jointly participated...
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Iran Hormoz 24 (Persian: ایران هرمز ۲۴) is a class of landing ship tank operated by the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The vessels were...
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Strait of Hormuz (EMASoH) is a French-led maritime monitoring mission with the goal to protect maritime flows through the Strait of Hormuz. It is headquartered...
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The Siege of Hormuz was a military confrontation between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire at Hormuz in September 1552. The Portuguese successfully...
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Hormuz District (Persian: بخش هرمز) is in Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Hormuz. At the time of the 2006 National...
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conquest of Hormuz in 1507 occurred when the Portuguese Afonso de Albuquerque attacked Hormuz Island to establish the Fortress of Hormuz. This conquest...
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The Hormuz Formation, Hormuz Series, Hormuz Evaporites or Hormuz Group is a sequence of evaporites that were deposited during the Ediacaran (Late Neoproterozoic)...
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Iran Hormoz 21 (Persian: ایران هرمز ۲۱, also known as MIG-S-5000) is a class of landing ship tank (LST) or landing craft tank (LCT) operated by the Navy...
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of Hormuz so strategically important?". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024. "The Strait of Hormuz Is...
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(Persian language: قشم ) is an arrow-shaped Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, separated from the mainland by the Clarence Strait/Khuran in the Persian...
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Capture of Hormuz (Persian: بازپس گیری هرمز) was a combined Anglo-Persian expedition that successfully captured the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island after...
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Hormuz (Persian: هرمز) is a city in, and the capital of, Hormuz District of Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan province, Iran. At the time of the 2006 National...
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Peninsula. It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian...
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The battle of Hormuz or the battle of the Persian Gulf on 11–12 February 1625 was "perhaps the largest naval battle ever fought in the Persian Gulf". It...
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Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been named Hormuz: Hormuz 21 class Hormuz 24 class This article includes a list of ships with the same...
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Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560) (section Murat Reis the Elder Expedition and Battle of the Strait of Hormuz, 1553)
considerable reinforcements to Hormuz, and the following year defeated an Ottoman fleet at the Battle of the Strait of Hormuz. In 1553, the Portuguese soundly...
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captured the city of Hormuz itself, by the entrance of the Persian Gulf, and erected on it the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception. Hormuz and its provinces...
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surrounded by United Arab Emirates on their land borders, with the Strait of Hormuz (which it shares with Iran) and the Gulf of Oman forming Musandam's coastal...
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Iran's anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) strategy in the Strait of Hormuz mixes advanced technology with guerilla tactics to deny, deter or delay foreign...
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Piracy around the Horn of Africa (redirect from Piracy in the Strait of Hormuz)
Piracy has taken place in a maritime area bounded by Suez and the Strait of Hormuz, in the region around the Horn of Africa, and waters surrounding the Arabian...
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securing Hormuz from Persian invasion. In this respect, Rui had to build a fortress on Qeshm Island to secure the water supply to Hormuz. This project...
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