Gombroon

Gombroon, called also BENDER ABBAS, a seaport of Persia, in the province of Kirman, stands on the Strait of Ormuz, opposite the island of that name. Bender Abbas owed its name and importance to Shah Abbás, who, assisted by the English, drove the Portuguese in 1622 from Ormuz, ruined that seaport, and transferred its commerce to Gombroon. For a while the new town prospered; but at present it is a wretched place of about 8000 inhabitants, mostly Arabs, who trade to the extent of £450,000 per annum in piece goods, sugar, tea, and pottery (imports), and in carpets, wool, tobacco, saffron, opium, almonds, and madder (exports).