![]() Locals have stories for the rocks and cliffs that resemble birds, animals or mythical creatures. Hormuz village is the only permanent settlement. The population may decline by half in summer through migration. To escape Mongol attacks, one ruler shifted the capital to nearby Hormuz Island and built a town there called New Hormuz, but he soon made peace with the Mongols and moved the capital back. In medieval times, Hormuz was the capital of its province and the province is still called Hormozgan, though the city of Bandar Abbas is now the capital. Hormuz, Persian Jazireh-ye Hormoz, also called Ormuz, mostly barren, the hilly island of Iran on the Strait of Hormuz, between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, 5 miles (8 km) off the coast.
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