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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.
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Jeddah lies in the Hijazi Tihama (تهامة الحجاز) region which is in the lower Hijaz mountains. Historically, politically and culturally, Jeddah was a major city of Hejaz Vilayet, the Kingdom of Hejaz and other regional political entities according to Hijazi history books. It is the 100th largest city in the world by land area.
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.
Jeddah in 1938. Al-Balad was founded in the 7th century and historically served as the centre of Jeddah. [5] Al-Balad's defensive walls were torn down in the 1940s. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Jeddah began to become wealthier due to the oil boom, many Jeddawis moved north, away from Al-Balad, [6] as it reminded them of less prosperous times. [7]
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Some dynasties only ruled part of Egypt and existed concurrently with other dynasties based in other cities. The 7th might not have existed at all, the 10th seems to be a continuation of the 9th , and there might have been one or several Upper Egyptian Dynasties before what is termed the 1st Dynasty .
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