Polity Middle East

Hejaz

Attested 600 CE – 1938 CE

Geographic region of the Arabian Peninsula

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Hejaz on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Hejaz appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

600 CE 5 snapshots · 1,220 years unattested at the widest 1938 CE

600 CE 700 CE 1920 CE 1930 CE 1938 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Middle East

Lighthouse of Alexandria

280 BCE – 1323 CE

Polity · Middle East

Iran

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

The Crusades

1096 CE – 1291 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

1181 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628

602 CE – 628 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 1938 CE.

600 CE Muscat 602 CE Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 615 CE Mosque of the Companions 622 CE Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) 622 CE Mosque of the Prophet 624 CE Battle of Badr

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing

Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

HejazSelami Akceylan · CC BY 3.0
Lighthouse of AlexandriaProf. Hermann Thiersch (1874–1939) · Public domain
Flag of Iran (official)SVG file: SiBr 4 Designer: Hamid Nadimi Construction: ISIRI · Public domain
Crusadesanonymus · Public domain
Rock-Hewn Churches, LalibelaSailko · CC BY 3.0
Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628Piero della Francesca · Public domain