Place names
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Phonetically "Hu-lu-mo-si", this name is universally accepted to represent Hormuz, a polity based on an island lying near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. See Mills (1970; 165-73, 197).
For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Chen, Xie and Lu (1986: 521, 949).