Ormuz
Americannoun
noun
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Thence he visited the African coast, touching at Mombasa and Quiloa, and then sailed across to Ormuz and the Persian Gulf.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Ormuz was captured, making them supreme in the commerce of the Persian Gulf.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
There are many myrobalans of all sorts, and very good preserves are made with them, which the ships of Ormuz, which traffic at this place, export for the Arabs and Persians.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa
He obtained a great victory, near Ormuz, over the combined fleets of the Moors, Turks, and Persians.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
The Manicheans derived this doctrine from the ancient Persian religion, in which Ormuz, the light, is at enmity with Ahriman, the darkness.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
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