while others lean towards the latter. Another theory claims that the strait of Hormuz may have been named after Ifra Hormizd, the mother of King Shapur II of Persia, who ruled between 309 and 379 AD. Yet another theory is that it comes from ??u?? hormos, the Greek word for 'cove, bay'.

Historiography

The opening to the Persian Gulf was described, but not given a name, in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,

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