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Qeshm Island, the Glossary

Qeshm (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 Gulf.^[1]

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Arab settlements in Hormozgan province
Foreign trade of Iran
Islands of Iran
Landforms of Hormozgan province
Persian Gulf
Qeshm County

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Airbus A300

The Airbus A300 is Airbus's first production aircraft and the world's first twin-engine, double-aisle wide-body airliner, developed and manufactured by Airbus from 1971 to 2007.

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Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born, died 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius).

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Ardashir-Khwarrah

Ardashir-Khwarrah (Middle Persian: Arđaxšēr-Xwarra, meaning "glory of Ardashir") was one of the four (later five) administrative divisions of the Sasanian province of Pars.

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Bahrain

Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.

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Bakhsh

A bakhsh (بخش, also romanized as baxš) is a third-level administrative division of Iran.

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Bandar Abbas

Bandar Abbas (بندر عباس) is a city in the Central District of Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas are former Portuguese colonies.

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Bandar Khamir

Bandar Khamir (بندر خمير) is a port city on the shores of the Persian Gulf in the Central District of Khamir County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Bandar Lengeh

Bandar Lengeh (بندرلنگه) is a city in the Central District of Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Buyid dynasty

The Buyid dynasty (Âl-i Bōya), also spelled Buwayhid (Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Zaydi and, later, Twelver Shia dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over central and southern Iran and Iraq from 934 to 1062.

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Central District (Qeshm County)

The Central District of Qeshm County (بخش مرکزی شهرستان قشم) is in Hormozgan province, Iran.

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Clarence Strait (Iran)

The Clarence Strait is a narrow strait separating the Iranian island of Qeshm from the Iranian mainland. Qeshm Island and Clarence Strait (Iran) are Landforms of Hormozgan province.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Counties of Iran

Iran's counties (شهرستان, romanized as šahrestân) are administrative divisions of larger provinces (ostan).

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Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Daylamites

The Daylamites or Dailamites (Middle Persian: Daylamīgān; دیلمیان Deylamiyān) were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprising the southeastern half of Gilan Province.

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Dhow

Dhow (translit) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region.

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Dolphin

A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Elam

Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Fort Nossa Senhora da Conceição

The Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle, is a red stone fortress on Hormuz Island, Iran.

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Free-trade zone

A free-trade zone (FTZ) is a class of special economic zone. Qeshm Island and free-trade zone are special economic zones.

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Garden of Eden

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.

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Greater and Lesser Tunbs

Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb (تنب بزرگ و تنب کوچک., Tonb-e Bozorg and Tonb-e Kuchak, طنب الكبرى و طنب الصغرى., Tunb el-Kubra and Tunb el-Sughra) are two small islands in the eastern Persian Gulf, close to the Strait of Hormuz. Qeshm Island and Greater and Lesser Tunbs are islands of Iran.

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Hawksbill sea turtle

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.

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Hengam Island

Hengam Island (جزیره هنگام) is an Iranian island located south of Qeshm Island, Iran, in the Persian Gulf. Qeshm Island and Hengam Island are islands of Iran, Landforms of Hormozgan province and Qeshm County.

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Hoda Afshar

Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne.

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Hormozgan province

Hormozgan Province (استان هرمزگان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Qeshm Island and Hormozgan province are Persian Gulf.

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Hormuz Island

Hormuz Island (translit), also spelled Ormus, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Qeshm Island and Hormuz Island are islands of Iran, Landforms of Hormozgan province and Qeshm County.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iran Air

The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Havāpeymāyi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslāmiye Irān), branded as Iran Air, is the flag carrier of Iran, which is headquartered at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.

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Iran Air Flight 655

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by, a United States Navy warship.

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Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies

Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian studies.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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John Cassell

John Cassell (23 January 1817 – 2 April 1865) was an English publisher, printer, writer and editor, who founded the firm Cassell & Co, famous for its educational books and periodicals, and which pioneered the serial publication of novels.

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Khasab

Khasab (Ḫaṣab) is a town and local capital of the Musandam Governorate which is an exclave of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula by the Strait of Hormuz.

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Kish Island

Kish (کیش), is a resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf. Qeshm Island and Kish Island are Arab settlements in Hormozgan province, islands of Iran, Landforms of Hormozgan province and special economic zones.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mangrove forests of Qeshm

The Mangrove forests of Qeshm or Hara forests of Qeshm, are the mangrove forests on the southern coast of Iran, particularly on and near the island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf.

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Marl

Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.

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Melon

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit.

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Michael Taussig

Michael T. Taussig (born 3 April 1940 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University.

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Mina Rashid

Mina Rashid (ميناء راشد), also referred to as Port Rashid, is a man-made cruise terminal in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Missile

A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.

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Naaz islands

The Naaz islands (also Naz islands, جزایر ناز) are two tidal islands in the Persian Gulf, on the shore of Qeshm Island. Qeshm Island and Naaz islands are islands of Iran and Qeshm County.

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Nahang-class submarine

The Nahang (lit) is an Iranian-made class of midget submarine designed for shallow water operations.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Persian Gulf Bridge

The Persian Gulf Bridge is a 2.4 km- (1.5 mi-) long road-rail bridge currently under construction, which will link Qeshm Island to Bandar Abbas on mainland Iran. Qeshm Island and Persian Gulf Bridge are Persian Gulf.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Proterozoic

The Proterozoic is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8Mya, the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale.

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Provinces of Iran

Iran is subdivided into thirty-one provinces (استان ostân), each governed from a local centre, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital (Persian: مرکز, markaz) of that province.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeshm_Island

Also known as Gheshm Island, Jazireh-ye Qeshm, Kishm, Qeshm, Qishm, Queixome, Qushm.

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See also

Arab settlements in Hormozgan province

Foreign trade of Iran

Islands of Iran

Landforms of Hormozgan province

Persian Gulf

Qeshm County

References