ولاية الحجاز (Arabic) ولايت حجاز (Ottoman Turkish)
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1872–1916
Flag
The Hejaz Vilayet in 1900
the Vilayet's subdivisions in 1910
Capital
Mecca[1] Taif (summer residence)[2]
Demonym
Hejazi
Area
• 1914[3]
250,000 km2 (97,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1914[1]
300,000
History
• Vilayet Law
1872
• Hejaz railway
1908
• Arab Revolt
1916
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Jeddah Eyalet
Kingdom of Hejaz
Today part of
Saudi Arabia Jordan
The Vilayet of the Hejaz (Arabic: ولاية الحجازWilayat al-Ḥijāz; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت حجازVilâyet-i Hicaz) refers to the Hejaz region of Arabia when it was administered as a first-level province (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had an area of 96,500 square miles (250,000 km2).[3] The Hejaz included all land from the southern border of the Vilayet of Syria, south of the city of Ma‛an, to the northern border of the Vilayet of Yemen, north of the city of Al Lith.[2]
Despite its lack of natural resources, the region had great political importance as the cradle of Islam and was a source of legitimacy for the Ottomans' rule.[4] Subsidies provided by the state and zakat were the main source of income for the population of the two holy cities, but trade generated by the hajj was also an important source of revenue.[4]
The Ottoman regular force in Hejaz was constituted as a fırka (division), attached to the Seventh Army in Yemen.[5] Outside of cities and towns, Ottoman authority was weak.[6] Only Medina and Jeddah had permanent garrisons.[4]
^ abRoger Dewardt Lane (November 2010). Encyclopedia Small Silver Coins. Roger deWardt Lane. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-615-24479-2.
^ abNuman 2005, p. 61-62.
^ abAsia by A. H. Keane, page 459
^ abcGábor Ágoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
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