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  2. Jeddah - Wikipedia

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    Jeddah has been established as the main city of the historic Hijaz province and a historic port for pilgrims arriving by sea to perform their Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. [citation needed] In 750 in the Abbasid Revolution, the Abbasids successfully took control of almost the whole Umayyad Empire, excluding Morocco (Maghrib) and Spain (Al-Andalus).

  3. Timeline of Jeddah - Wikipedia

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    Jeddah Light (lighthouse) constructed. Jeddah Historical Preservation Society organized. [16] 1993 - Arab Radio and Television Network established. [citation needed] 1998 Iqraa TV headquartered in Jeddah. [citation needed] Al-Ittihad Jeddah (basketball) club formed. 1999 Jeddah Economic Forum begins. Saudi Geological Survey headquartered in Jeddah.

  4. Unification of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Unification of Saudi Arabia was a military and political campaign in which the various tribes, sheikhdoms, city-states, emirates, and kingdoms of most of the central Arabian Peninsula were conquered by the House of Saud, or Al Saud. Unification started in 1902 and continued until 1932, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was proclaimed ...

  5. History of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    The history of Saudi Arabia as a nation state began with the emergence of the Al Saud dynasty in central Arabia in 1727 [1][2] and the subsequent establishment of the Emirate of Diriyah. Pre-Islamic Arabia, the territory that constitutes modern Saudi Arabia, was the site of several ancient cultures and civilizations; the prehistory of Saudi ...

  6. Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    السعودية. Saudi Arabia, [ e ] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [ f ] is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.

  7. Habesh Eyalet - Wikipedia

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    Habesh Eyalet ( Arabic: إيالة الحبشة; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت حبش, romanized : Eyālet-i Ḥabeş) [3] was an Ottoman eyalet. It was also known as the Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh, as Jeddah was its chief town, [4] and Habesh and Hejaz. [5] It extended on the areas of coastal Hejaz and Northeast Africa of Eritrea that border ...

  8. Jeddah Islamic Port - Wikipedia

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    The importance of Jeddah Port increased and reached its maximum limit when Saudi Arabia was developing into a modern country. The port was established in 646 A.D. during the reign of the Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, [3] and today has 62 berths in service. [2]

  9. Al-Balad, Jeddah - Wikipedia

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    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]