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Hedjaz

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Hedjaz: see Hejaz Hejaz or Hedjaz (both: hējăz`, hĕjäz`), region, c.
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, Saudi Arabia.
Hejaz, Hedjaz, Hijaz
a region of W Saudi Arabia, along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba: formerly an independent kingdom; united with Nejd in 1932 to form Saudi Arabia. Area: about 348 600 sq. km (134 600 sq. miles)


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The Hashemites, descendants of the Prophet Mohammed and the guardians of the Moslem Holy Cities, Mecca and Medina, had declared their region of western Arabia, known as the Hedjaz, an independent kingdom in 1916.
 
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