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Hejaz Railway Medal – the Ottoman Empire - 1900
Hejaz Railway medal. The Ottoman Empire, 1900.
Obverse: illustration of a train, Tughra of Abdul Hamid II and the year 1318 (1900).
The Hejaz railway was started in 1900 at the behest of the Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was inaugurated in 1908. The railway ran from Damascus in Syria to El-Medina in Hejaz; a branch line from Haifa to the Syrian town of Dara’a went through Eretz Israel.
Diameter: 30 mm. Pierced for hanging.