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	Hejaz Railway - LoveToKnow 1911
		The ostensible reason was to provide a cheap and easy means for Moslems to perform the prescribed pilgrimage to the holy places of their Faith, but the Sultan also hoped that the line would strengthen his temporal authority.
		After the outbreak of the revolt (1916) the railway was repeatedly damaged by organized parties of Arab forces, the most serious attack being that in the spring of 1918 when a long sector S. of Ma`an was so completely destroyed as to be beyond repair during the war.
		The prolongation of the line to Mecca was prevented by the opposition of the Harb tribes, which were inspired by the Grand Sherif of Mecca and by the cessation of subscriptions.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hejaz_Railway (796 words)

	Hejaz - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hejaz was raided by the Wahhabis ; peace was restored in 1817 by the governor of Egypt.
		To improve communications, the Turks built the Hejaz railway (completed 1908) from Damascus to Medina; it was severely damaged during World War I and later abandoned.
		The Hejaz was in 1916 proclaimed independent by Husayn ibn Ali, the sherif of Mecca, who with the aid of T. Lawrence destroyed Turkish authority.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hejaz.html (451 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hejaz (also Hijaz, Hedjaz; al-á¸¤iÇ§Äz) is a region in the northwest of present-day Saudi Arabia.
		In Arabic, Hejaz means literally "the barrier" as it separates the land of Najd in the east from the land of Tehama in the west.
		Evidence has been found the Hejaz (or parts of it) was part of the Roman province of Arabia [1].
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hejaz (286 words)

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		The Hejaz Railway was originally built to transport pilgrims from Damascus to Madinah.
		The camel caravan owners were far from pleased by the construction of the railway line, as it posed a considerable threat to their livelihood.
		The railway journey was quicker and cheaper, and no-one in his right mind would contemplate spending £40 on an arduous, two-month camel journey when he could travel in comfort in only four days for just £3.50.
	www.arab.net /saudi/sa_hejazrailway.htm (917 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hejaz
		Hejaz or Hedjaz, region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), NW Saudi Arabia, on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea.
		Extending S to Asir, Hejaz is mainly a dissected highland region lying between the narrow, long coastal strip and the interior desert.
		In 1908 he succeeded as grand sherif of Mecca and thus became ruler of the Hejaz under the Ottoman Empire.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hejaz&StartAt=11 (603 words)

	Hejaz Railroad, Saudi Arabia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The Hijaz Railway, conceived as a convenient route to the holy cities of Medina and Makkah for Muslim pilgrims from the Turkish Ottoman Empire, had a short but eventful existence in the early years of this century.
		The railway was funded by subscriptions raised throughout the Islamic world, and work began in May 1900, to build the single track line almost 1,100 miles from Damascus to Medina.
		The Hijaz Railway was built with fortifications at regular intervals along its route, manned by Turkish garrisons to protect this vital link of the far flung Ottoman Empire.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /hejaz_railroad.htm (256 words)

	Hejaz Railway
		Even before World War I (1914-18) the Bedouins of the adjacent desert areas attacked the railway, which challenged their control over the pilgrims' route to the holy places from the north.
		When the Arabs of the Hejaz revolted against Turkish rule in 1916, the track between Ma'an and Medina was put out of operation by Arab raids, largely inspired by T.E. Lawrence.
		The section of the railway running from Ma'an, Jordan, to Medina was heavily damaged and was abandoned after 1917.
	www.naqshbandi.org /ottomans/khalifa/hejaz_railway.htm (249 words)

	CNNTraveller - Remaking tracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Hejaz railway, named after the mountains through which it ran, has infused itself in the popular imagination through the classic 1962 David Lean film Lawrence of Arabia and Lawrence's own account of his wartime actions, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which both breathe life into the Hejaz, its stations, Turkish garrisons and steam locomotives.
		Approved in 1890, the Hejaz Railway was the last grand vision of the dying Ottoman Empire and Sultan Abdulhamid II.
		What remains of the Hejaz railway is funded by the Syrian and Jordanian governments and is now largely used by Jordanian traders to bring Syrian merchandise to local souqs.
	www.cnntraveller.com /2005/nov_dec/railway (1459 words)

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		The correspondent has passed severe strictures on the railway officials, and he advises all those who wish to give money not to pay so long as the extreme corruption in the railway is not ended.
		The man who first mooted the idea of the Hejaz Railway was the notorious Izzet Pasha, who was responsible for the slaughter of Armenians.
		The railway has got into the hands of cheats and swindlers The Viceroy of Hejaz had sent a telegramto the Sultan, saying that nothing could be done as long as the railway remained in the hands of predatory officials.
	www.mkgandhi.org /cwm/vol6/ch375.htm (1006 words)

	Rail of Two Cities:Damascus to Amman on the Hejaz Railway
		Hejaz Station is near the center of Damascus.
		The Hejaz Railway was built by the Ottomans around the turn of the century.
		The railway was of strategic importance to the empire and an obvious target of saboteurs in any uprising.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/archive/vol28issue3/rail.htm (1482 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Documentary Archive \| Heritage: The Hejaz Railway
		The railway was destroyed in parts by Lawrence of Arabia during the First World War, but the sections that survive are still in use.
		The Hejaz railway was the last great religious foundation of the Ottomans, which set to revolutionise travel for Muslim pilgrims.
		The idea for the railway was conceived by Sultan Abdul Hammid II and the building of it brought together finance from India, steel from Belgium, engineers from Germany and conscripts from Turkey.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/4606252.stm (432 words)

	Railways in Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first railway in the Arabian peninsula was the 1050mm gauge Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Medina.
		Whatever the facts, the southern section of the railway was largely destroyed during the First World War (not least owing to the actions of Arab tribesmen led by T E Lawrence - better known as Lawrence of Arabia).
		Even if it were revived, the Hejaz Railway would have less importance today for the Hajj, as the majority of pilgrims arrive by air.
	www.sinfin.net /railways/world/saudi.html (250 words)

	IslamiCity.com - A Quiet Demise
		Early last century, the biggest threat to the Hejaz Railway was Britain's T.E. Lawrence and his camel-mounted Arab rebels, who sabotaged the desert track to attack trains packed with Turkish soldiers.
		Built by the Ottoman Sultan during the golden era of railways in the 1900s, the Hejaz ran for 1,300 km (812 miles) from Damascus to Medina, ferrying pilgrims to Islam's holy sites and troops to rebellious Arab provinces under Ottoman rule.
		The military use of the Hejaz by Turkey, allied with Germany during World War One, brought the demise of the railway.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=YH0507-2754 (997 words)

	Other Medals and Badges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The building of a railway was announced by Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1900 that was to be financed and operated entirely by Ottoman subjects (although the principal engineer was German).
		Funding for the Hejaz railway came from donations, the largest of which came from the Sultan himself and from the Shah of Persia.
		Like the Hejaz Railway, the Turkish naval fleet was also being funded by passing the hat among the public and taking donations.
	www.turkishmedals.net /others.htm (1352 words)

	Hejaz Railroad - Fotos und Infos
		The railway was considered one of the greatest achievements of the Ottoman ruler Abdul Hammed II.
		The railway originally to continue on to Makkah, with the aim of not only helping pilgrims make their routes to the holy sites safer and faster, but also to help solidify the Ottoman grip on the region by strengthening trade ties between Damascus and the Hejaz Region.
		A rail line that was once hailed as an achievement of Muslim can-do unity, that later fell victim to the ravages of war and was neglected for decades, may once again rise up as a symbol of historic pride.
	www.henrich-center.de /News.html (1885 words)

	Railways in Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first railway line in Jordan was the 1050mm gauge Hejaz Railway, opened in 1908 between Damascus and Medina (see entry for Saudi Arabia).
		The Aqaba Railway, also 1050mm gauge, transports phosphates from mines in southern Jordan to the port city of Aqaba.
		The remainder of the original Hejaz route (including the section southwards towards the Saudi border) is disused and, for the most part, destroyed or dismantled.
	www.sinfin.net /railways/world/jordan.html (99 words)

	Damascus Travelogue, The Hejaz Railroad
		The Hejaz Railroad was originally built to transport pilgrims from Damascus to Medina - one of the Holiest site for the Moslems, a must to visit be all able Moslems.
		railway journey was quicker and cheaper, and no one in his right mind would contemplate spending 120 USD on an arduous, two month camel journey when he could travel in comfort in only four days for just 11 USD.
		By the year 1916, the railway was rendered useless, leaving it as desolate as the desert it once conquered.
	www.trekshare.com /index.cfm?p1=48&journalid=273 (633 words)

	An historical road from Istanbul to Mecca: the Hejaz Railway - Turkish Daily News Apr 26, 2000
		Within the framework of the celebrations planned for the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, a historic project was born; the revitalization of the historic Hejaz Railway.
		In a letter he sent to the Sultan, Ahmet Izzet Efendi said that a railway connecting Istanbul to Hejaz would constitute an important defense asset for the Ottoman Empire, which was facing the danger of attack by foreign enemies and the indigenous population.
		The railway contributed to the development of the station cities in Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Palestine.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=17073 (1638 words)

	A piece of railway history
		The Hejaz Railway was built 100 years ago to carry pilgrims from Istanbul to Medina but was blown up by Lawrence of Arabia during World War I. Stretches of the line are still used today by passenger and goods trains with engines and carriages from another era.
		My first encounter with the Hejaz Railway was in clouds of steam along with a pungent smell of hot grease, at Kadem station in Damascus.
		As the railway had to burn wood instead of coal, they built this 25-mile-long (40km) branch line into a forest near the Crusader castle of Shubak to collect it.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/44/24767 (815 words)

	Nabataea: Hejaz Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is possible to take the Hejaz Railway from the Mahatta station in Amman to the city of Damascus.
		The Hejaz Jordan Railway is reached through this very unimposing doorway.
		A map of the Hejaz Railway in the Damascus Train station
	nabataea.net /hejazad.html (147 words)

	Newsvine - A Good News Story from the Middle East; Hejaz Railway Re-Opens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Hejaz railway, which transported pilgrims from Damascus to Medina, was one of the great train journeys of the world.
		Built by the Turkish Ottoman Empire the Hejaz railway transported thousands of pilgrims on the 1300 kilometre trip from Syria’s capital Damascus to Medina, in what is now Saudi Arabia.
		At the Qadem station on the outskirts of Damascus, “The Hejaz railway was once a joint project of the entire Islamic world”, explains archaeologist Ulrich Bellwald.
	ispy.newsvine.com /_news/2006/10/21/409371-a-good-news-story-from-the-middle-east-hejaz-railway... (394 words)

	CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: The Hejaz railway -DAWN Magazine; June 13, 2004
		On June 5, 1916, the Hejaz railway line was cut by Lawrence of Arabia.
		Next came the severing of the Hejaz railway line by Lawrence of Arabia with the help of Arab guerrillas.
		During 1967 and the Arab-Israel war, the Hejaz railway line and its bridges were again damaged.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/dmag/archive/040613/dmag15.htm (966 words)

	Foreign Correspondent - 03/10/2006: Hejaz Railway
		Built by the Turkish Ottoman Empire the Hejaz railway transported thousands of pilgrims on the 1300 kilometre trip from Syria’s capital Damascus, through the Jordanian desert to Medina, in what is now Saudi Arabia.
		He told reporter Mark Willacy the railway was a “bridge of ideas, and a bridge of peace”.
		Among those most keen to see the Hejaz railway work again are the descendants of Lawrence’s Bedouin fighters.
	www.abc.net.au /foreign/content/2006/s1749412.htm (194 words)

	The Far Side of the Sky - Christopher E. Brennen
		The Hejaz Railway was originally built to transport Islamic pilgrims from Damascus to Medina.
		The railway was finally opened in 1908 and business boomed in the next few years; the number of pilgrims taking the train mushroomed from 30 thousand in 1912 to 300 thousand in 1914.
		After the war, the Ottoman Empire was dismantled and, though some of the northern sections of the Hejaz Railway continued to function, the long stretch through the Saudi desert melted away leaving only skeletons in the sand.
	www.dankat.com /mstory/justin.htm (1743 words)

	The Hejaz Railway of Jordan
		How he united the Arab tribes, and ousted the Turkish Ottomans from the region by declaring war on their newly built railway, and the supply trains that ran on it.
		With the help of German engineers, the Hejaz railway was built by the Ottoman Turks in 1908.
		When war broke out in 1917, the railway line became of particular interest to Mr Lawrence, because of its importance in transporting supplies to the Turks.
	www.roadjunky.com /guide/174/the-hejaz-railway-of-jordan (621 words)

	‘Lawrence of Arabia’ train faces quiet demise -DAWN - International; July 27, 2005
		ABOARD THE HEJAZ RAILWAY: Early last century, the biggest threat to the Hejaz Railway was Britain’s T.E. Lawrence and his camel-mounted Arab rebels, who sabotaged the desert track to attack trains packed with Turkish soldiers.
		Today, a lack of passengers and improved highways may kill off the Hejaz once and for all, a quiet demise for a train that entered popular imagination thanks to Lawrence’s war exploits, later turned into the classic film “Lawrence of Arabia”.
		Built by the Ottoman Sultan during the golden era of railways in the 1900s, the Hejaz ran for 1,300 km from Damascus to Madina, ferrying pilgrims to Islam’s holy sites and troops to rebellious Arab provinces under Ottoman rule.
	www.dawn.com /2005/07/27/int10.htm (787 words)

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