Category:Vilayet of Hejaz

**Hejaz Vilayet**
	A Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
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Instance of	vilayet;
Location	Ottoman Empire
Capital	Mecca; Ta'if;
Inception	1872;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	10 January 1919;
Replaces	Habesh Eyalet;
Replaced by	Kingdom of Hejaz;
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English: *The Hejaz Vilayet (1872–1916) — a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire encompassing the Hejaz region of Arabia along the Red Sea.

Tthe region had great political importance as the cradle of Islam with Medina and Mecca, a source of legitimacy for the western based Islamic Ottoman Empire.

العربية: ولاية الحجاز