Qeshm, the largest island of Iran, c.500 sq mi (1,300 sq km), lies south of Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz. It is mostly rocky and has little vegetation; dates and fruits are raised. Qeshm City, at the eastern end of the island, is the largest city. At the northern part of the city there is a small forest called the Mangrove. Qeshm Island is hot and humid and it receives 210 mm of rain a year. Iran (Persian: ایران) is a Middle Eastern country located in southwestern Asia. ... The Strait of Hormuz (تنگه هرمز in Persian) is a relatively narrow stretch of ocean between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest. ... Datateknologerna vid Åbo Akademi r. ... In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. ... Above and below water view at the edge of the mangal Mangroves are woody trees or shrubs that grow in mangrove habitats or mangal (Hogarth, 1999). ...
This is identical to the island of Bani Ka@wa@n, assigned by Abu Esháa@q EsátÂakòri to the district of Ardaæir-kòorra (q.v.; EsátÂakòri, pp.
Ebn K¨orda@dòbeh identified the island of Banu Ka@wa@n as a station between Kish and Hormuz on the sea-route to India and China and described its inhabitants as belonging to the ¿Eba@di sect (Sprenger, p.
Qeshm's status as a major Hormuzi mercantile center is shown by the fact that, in late September1552, the Turkish commander Piri Re÷is raided it, seizing "a great quantity of goods, of gold and silver, and of cash...
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