Jeddah (sau)

Jeddah

Jeddah ranks 538th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Donetsk, Santo Domingo, and Stockport. Memorable people born in Jeddah include Abbas I of Egypt, Al-Waleed bin Talal, and Muhammad bin Nayef. Memorable people who died in Jeddah include Idi Amin, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen. Jeddah has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and religious figures. Jeddah is located in Saudi Arabia.

Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda, is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region. Jeddah is the commercial center of the country. It is not known when Jeddah was founded, but Jeddah's prominence grew in 647 when the Caliph Uthman made it a travel hub serving Muslim travelers going to the holy city of Mecca for Islamic pilgrimage. Since those times, Jeddah has served as the gateway for millions of pilgrims who have arrived in Saudi Arabia, traditionally by sea and recently by air. Read more on Wikipedia