How did the Strait of Hormuz get its name? Here's the real origin story

Long before modern geopolitics turned the strait into a global flashpoint, there was a thriving port city called Hormuz. It sat on the southern coast of present-day Iran and later moved to an island nearby for security reasons. Medieval travellers wrote about it with awe. Merchants from India, Persia and the Arab world docked there. It became one of the richest trading hubs in the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. The waterway gradually took the name of the port. In other words, the strait was named after the city, and not the other way around... Most historians trace...