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5 unusual facts about Bandar Abbas


2008 Qeshm earthquake

The effects were concentrated on Qeshm, where several buildings were destroyed, although minor damage was reported around Bandar Abbas.

Bandar Abbas

In the year 630 CE, Maharaja Derbar Raja of Gemeron was defeated in battle and escaped to Ceylon, and he was later blown off course by a storm to the remote shores of Kuala Sungai Qilah, Kedah (now Malaysia).

Sir Thomas Herbert said the official English name was Gumbrown, but pronounced "gŏmrōōn".

Moudge-class frigate

The first ship, Jamaran is said to be completed and is stationed in the port of Bandar Abbas.

Polymitia laristana

It is known from Iran, the type locality is southern Iran, just north of Bandar Abbas.


Mir Jumla II

Mir Jumla, who in the 1640s had his own ships and organized merchant fleets that sailed throughout Surat, Thatta, Arakan, Ayuthya, Balasore, Aceh, Melaka, Johore, Bantam, Makassar, Ceylon, Bandar Abbas, Mecca, Jeddah, Basra, Aden, Masqat, Mocha and the Maldives.

Nicholas Woodcock

Woodcock is mentioned in the travels of Pietro Della Valle as master of the same vessel, in which Della Valle sailed from Bandar Abbas to Surat in January 1623.

Persian Gulf campaign of 1809

In February 1806, the young Sultan of Oman, Sa'id II ibn Sultan, signed a treaty at Bandar Abbas promising to bring an end to piracy originating from his territory, but by 1807 the French had installed consulates in Tehran and Muscat and piracy continued unabated with their encouragement.


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F.C. Shahrdari Bandar Abbas

At the end of the 2005–06 season Esteghlal Kish, a team based on the island of Kish were dissolved and their licence was purchased by Shahrdari Bandar Abbas, allowing them to compete in the Azadegan League for the 2006–07 season where they were successful and nearly managed to get promotion to the Professional League.

Maziar Ashrafian Bonab

As well as dealing with many different forensic cases and having done more than 400 autopsies, he taught forensic medicine and medical anthropology to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes within the Bandar-Abbas University of Medical Sciences and Bandar-Abbas Islamic Azad University.