section_path: History/Pre-Islamic history
section_name: Pre-Islamic history
paragraph_text: Pre-Islamic history
  
  The earliest record of Bandar Abbas is during the reign of Darius the Great, the King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (between 522 and 486 BC). Darius's commander, Silacus, embarked from Bandar Abbas to India and the Red Sea.
  
  During Alexander III of Macedon 's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire, Bandar Abbas was known under the name of Hormirzad.