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The Weapons

Hormuz which was constructed
and officially opened in 1515, El
Bahrain Castle which buildings
were renewed several times (2o3n)
an old fort in the 16th century

(The Coniferous Shape and the thickness of (Ormuz Fortalesa)
the ship Helm (Galleon) the Portuguese) (Barem Fortalesa)

The Portuguese depended
on the catapults as a military
weapon to protect their sites and
military presence in the coasts of
the Indian Ocean and the Gulf,
as they have on the coast of
Oman and the Gulf alone about
17 military castles fortified by
cannons and the rest of weapons.
One example was Portuguese

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