Kish

by Floor, Willem

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Kish (Ar., Qays) is an Iranian island important in the past (in trade) and the present (in tourism and trade). It lies in the Persian Gulf, nineteen kilometres off Bandar-i Charak. During the fifth–eighth/eleventh–fourteenth centuries it was the emporium through which trade from and to India was controlled. Thereafter it was a typical Persian Gulf island, whose inhabitants fished, pearled, and traded. By 1970 it became an important tourist centre, and it has been, since 1992, a free-trade zone.…

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Kish (Ar., Qays) is an Iranian island important in the past (in trade) and the present (in tourism and trade). It lies in the Persian Gulf, nineteen kilometres off Bandar-i Charak. During the fifth–eighth/eleventh–fourteenth centuries it was the emporium through which trade from and to India was controlled. Thereafter it was a typical Persian Gulf island, whose inhabitants fished, pearled, and traded. By 1970 it became an important tourist centre, and it has been, since 1992, a free-trade zone. Kish, in English sources variously called

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2903

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eng Islam

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Floor, Willem

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