a market-town of Hungary, county of Zips, 20 miles S.S.W. of Eperies. In the vicinity are iron and copper mines, which, with the iron forges, afford employment to most of the inhabitants. It is the seat of a mining board. Pop. 5100.

GOMBROON or BUNDER AHNAS, a seaport-town of Persia, province of Kerman, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, nearly opposite the island of Ormuz, in 27°18' N. Lat., 56°12' E. Long. This was at one time the first seaport of Persia, and was then strongly fortified; but it is now a paltry town of about 4000 inhabitants, with no traces of its former condition but ruins of European buildings. The English were permitted to establish a factory here in 1613, and about 1620 the Dutch obtained the same privilege. When the island of Ormuz was taken by the English and Persians in 1622, merchants resorted thither in great numbers, and its commerce greatly increased. The English remained here till 1759, when the factory was taken by the French; and though afterwards re-established, it has long since been withdrawn on account of the unhealthiness of the climate. The town is surrounded by a mud wall about three-quarters of a mile in circumference, and the houses are rather commodiously built, but the streets are narrow.