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The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz (Arabic: المملكة الحجازية الهاشمية, Al-Mamlakah al-Ḥijāziyyah Al-Hāshimiyyah) was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty.
The flag of the Arab revolt – Aqaba, 2006. The flag of the Arab Revolt (Arabic: علم الثورة العربية), also used as the flag of Hejaz (Arabic: علم مملكة الحجاز), was a flag used by Hussein bin Ali and his allies, the Arab nationalists, during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and as the first flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz.
[99] [101] [102] Barquq was made atabeg al-asakir in 1378, giving him command of the Mamluk army, [99] which he used to oust Baraka in 1380. [101] Ali died in May 1381 and was succeeded by his nine-year-old brother, al-Salih Hajji, with real power held by Barquq as regent. [103] The next year, Barquq toppled al-Salih Hajji and assumed the ...
The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (Arabic: مملكة الحجاز ونجد, Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz wa-Najd), initially the Kingdom of Hejaz and Sultanate of Nejd (Arabic: مملكة الحجاز وسلطنة نجد, Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz wa-Salṭanat Najd), was a dual monarchy ruled by Abdulaziz following the victory of the Saudi Sultanate of Nejd over the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hejaz in 1925.
The main reason was to thwart Portuguese attempts to attack the Red Sea (hence the Hejaz) and the Indian Ocean. [3] As early as 1578, the Sharifs of Mecca launched forays into the desert to punish the Najdi tribes who mounted raids on oases and tribes in the Hejaz.
Kingdom of Hejaz; Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd; Lebel Model 1886 rifle; List of Saudi Arabian flags; List of air forces; List of battles 1901–2000; List of conflicts in the southern Levant; List of heads of state and government deposed by foreign power in the 20th and 21st century; List of heads of state and government who have been in exile
Najd (Arabic: نَجْدٌ, pronounced) is the central region of Saudi Arabia, in which about a third of the country's modern population resides.It is the home of the House of Saud, from which it pursued unification with Hejaz since the time of the Emirate of Diriyah.
Kingdom of Hejaz; Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd; List of Saudi Arabian flags; List of air forces; List of flags with Arabic-language text; List of former sovereign states; List of members of the Universal Postal Union; List of modern conflicts in the Middle East; List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia; List of sovereign states in the 1920s