Friday, June 10, 2016

Declaration of an Arab state: June 10, 1916.



Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, declares the existence of an Arab state stretching from Aden to Aleppo.  The Arab state, as he envisioned it, would never come into being and he himself would ultimately be driven out of the Hajez in 1924, after having attempted to claim the title of Caliph, which the House of Saud was not willing to accept.

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