Shii News – ‘The Persian-Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz’
Posted in: Field-specific (academic), Iran, PortugalThe Persian-Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered
In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515-1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-term pattern of western imperialism.
- July 18, 2017
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