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'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. ] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)