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Hormuz
Hormuz is an island and historic trading port at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. It was held by the Portuguese from the early sixteenth century. In 1622 Shah Abbas of the Safavid Empire expelled the Portuguese from Hormuz with English naval assistance.
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