Category: War, from Wikidata’s class “battle”
Capture of Mecca (1924)
Part of: Saudi conquest of Hejaz Wikidata
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: battle (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The Capture of Mecca took place on 5 December 1924 in Mecca, as part of the Saudi conquest of the Kingdom of Hejaz by King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud of the Sultanate of Nejd. The Hejaz region was ruled as a kingdom under King Hussein bin Ali of the Hashemite family.
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Capture of Mecca (1924). (2026, August 22). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capture_of_Mecca_(1924)&oldid=1370609153
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This event on Middle East, 1900–present: https://middleeast.events/event/capture-of-mecca-1924
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