Title

'Jiddah',1890

Caption

'Jiddah', 1890. Jiddah city in the Tihamah region of the Hejaz on the coast of the Red Sea is a gateway Mecca and Medina. first achieved prominence around AD 647, when Uthman Ibn Affan, turned it into a port. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F25_061

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59,3Mb (2,4Mb) / 16,7in x 13,8in / 4998 x 4150 (300dpi)

Keywords

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