This important port (420 000 inhabitants), a natural and strategic lock, commands the strait of Hormuz. Capital of Hormozgan province, 1 485 km south of Tehran, it is crushed by suffocating heat during the summer. Here, buildings are larger than in the rest of the country. New buildings in futuristic architecture follow in the way (but to a lesser extent!) those of Doha or Dubai. The city is dynamic and modern. The shopping centres are abundant. Fast foods are combined with cosmetics shops and western fashion girls, with traditional clothing (colored chador under which baggy pants are hidden at the sparkling edge). A stay at Bandar Abbas is a good way to immerse himself from the specific culture of the Gulf people, a reflection of the mixing of the centuries between Persians, Arabs and Africans.HistoryThe town was founded by Shah Abbas I in 1622 because of its proximity to the Iranian Gulf Islands. A small village of fishermen originally, Bandar Abbas is the main port of the Persian Empire after the decline of the island of Hormuz, occupied until the early th century by the Portuguese. British, Dutch and French then set up counters. An Indian minority of traders also settled at the same time, present until the second half of the twentieth century. Their Hindu temple (Imam avenue) is still accessible. During the reign of the Nadir Shah in the 1868 th century, the city passes under the Coupe of Oman before regaining Persian giron in. Its maritime importance, which is secondary throughout the th century, was decisive during the Iran-Iraq war. The ports located near the front - Bushehr, Bandar-e Imam and Khorramshahr - prove to be too dangerous for maritime traffic safety. Each year, the Hormuz Strait, a strategic area, sees almost 90% of the oil in the Persian Gulf, destined for Europe, North America and Asia.

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