'Jiddah', 1890. Creator: Unknown.

---

'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. ]

---

Size: 4998px × 4150px
Location: World,Middle East,World,Asia,Saudi Arabia,Makkah al Mukarramah,Jiddah
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: &, affan, arts, backlit, boat, boats, book, cassell, coastal, company, east, eastern, edmund, exterior, fisherman, fishermen, fishing, geography, guy, history, ibn, illustrated, islam, islamic, land, location, male, man, medieval, men, middle, ollier, outdoors, people, port, red, religion, religious, rocky, sea, tower, trade, transport, transportation, universal, uthman, view