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Mecca in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Mecca in Turkey. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1517–1517

Historical events in Mecca

1517

1517
Capture of Mecca
Selim I the Grim · Military

Occupies Mecca & the west Arabian coast

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