the impact of the steamships crossing the suez canal on the iranian ports of persian gulf through the last three decades of 19th century

the invention of higher tonnage steamships and the opening of the suez canal instead of the way of southern africa, created significant changes on commercial affairs of 19th century. the iranian southern ports, accessing to the open seas through the persian gulf, had benefited such development. this article is indirectly trying to analyze the impact of the suez canal on iranian ports on the basis of steamers’ traffics in the persian gulf .the best way to study this change is to calculate the number and the tonnage of the steamers which came into the persian gulf, especially to the ports of bushehr, lengeh, bandar abbas, and khorramshahr. present survey has been conducted on library and cliometrics methods and has been set in two phases. firstly, a global pattern of commerce between west and east has being provided, and then the role of the suez canal on the increase of the number and the tonnage of steamers entered the persian gulf would be taken in to account comparing to ordinary galleasses. the cliometrics used in this research has been reflected in notes section. ­