Bandar Abbas, Iran

Iran

Bandar Abbas, Iran shares 64 connections with 2511 other places across 15 topics, anchored in military history, Persian imperial history, and Indian Ocean trade. The city sits on the Strait of Hormuz directly across from Musandam Governorate, Oman, placing it at a crossroads between India, Oman, and London. In 1977, the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy relocated its fleet headquarters here from Khorramshahr. During Alexander the Great's campaigns through the Achaemenid Empire, the city was known as Hormirzad.

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