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Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · SAU LEFT · TUR RIGHT

1. 1517 CE

   Ottoman suzerainty over the Hejaz

   After defeating the Mamluks, the Ottomans gained sovereignty over the holy cities; the Sharif of Mecca recognized the Ottoman sultan as caliph while retaining local power.

   Politics & Power · from the Saudi Arabia chronicle · The Caliphates and the Hejaz under Outside Rule · REFS 1 — Sharifate of Mecca

2. 1811 - 1818

   The Ottoman-Egyptian campaign against the Saudis

   On behalf of the Ottoman sultan, the Egyptian forces of Muhammad Ali Pasha waged war on the expanding First Saudi State, driving it from the holy cities and into the Najdi heartland.

   War & Rupture · from the Saudi Arabia chronicle · The First and Second Saudi States and the Al Saud-Wahhab Alliance · REFS 2 — Siege of Diriyah (1818), First Saudi State