Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
703 CE - Jeddah was briefly occupied by pirates from the Kingdom of Axum. 969 CE - Fatimids in power. 1177 - Jeddah becomes part of the Ayyubid Empire. 1254 - City becomes part of the Mamluk Sultanate. 1400 - In the 15th century it became the centre of trade between Egypt and India. [1] 1517 - City besieged by Ottomans.
Timeline of Jeddah; 0–9. 2009 Jeddah floods; 2014 international conferences on Iraqi security; 2022–2023 Saudi Arabia floods; 2023 Arab League summit; 2023 Jeddah ...
Astronomical ceiling from the tomb of Seti I showing stars and constellations used in calendar calculations Egyptian chronology to approximate scale, including medieval and modern Egypt. The majority of Egyptologists agree on the outline and many details of the chronology of Ancient Egypt .
Jeddah (English: / ˈ dʒ ɛ d ə / JED-ə), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ d ə / JID-ə; Arabic: جِدَّة , romanized: Jidda, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ˈ(d)ʒɪd.da]), is the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.
This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
He led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967. This later led to the Egypt–Israel peace treaty . Recent Egyptian history has been dominated by events following nearly thirty years of rule by the former president Hosni Mubarak .
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The people in Upper Egypt are running away by wholesale, utterly unable to pay the new taxes and do the work exacted. Even here (Cairo) the beating for the years taxes is awful." In the late 1860s Egypt attempted to build a modern navy and ordered several armored ironclads, two each of the "Nijmi Shevket" class and the "Lutfi Djelil" class.