Genāveh

Jannaba, also known as Ganava, is a port on the Persian Gulf coast. Medieval geographers described it as a trading centre of Fars: in the tenth century its people gathered pearls, built ships and produced brocade for export. By the thirteenth century, the traveller Qazvini described a small coastal town with brackish water and poor soil.

The neighbouring gulf coast remained a place of commerce and rivalry. In 1766 Mir Muhanna of Bandar Rig took the Dutch East India Company's fort on Kharg Island, off this shore. The episode illustrates the changing balance of power among local rulers, Iranian authorities and European traders in the waters around Ganava.