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Hedjaz

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Hedjaz: see Hejaz Hejaz or Hedjaz , region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), NW Saudi Arabia, on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Mecca is the chief city.
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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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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Travels in Arabia Comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans Regards as Sacred (London: Henry Colburn, 1829).
Laurence Raw Baskent University, Turkey Notes (1) These names have been spelled in different ways--Hejaz can also be known as Hedjaz or Hijaz; Hussein as Huseyin (in Ottoman/Turkish writings) and Feisal as Faysal (again in Ottoman/Turkish texts).
Weizmann, the sole speaker, closed his address by reading telegrams of congratulations from Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Minister, the French government and the Emir Feisal, son of the Sharif Hussein, King of Hedjaz, whom Weizmann had recently met.
 
 
 
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