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[[File:جده.png|290px|thumbnail|right|Jeddah on the map of [[Saudi Arabia]].]]

'''Juddah''' or '''Jeddah''' (Arabic:{{iarabic| جدة}}) is the most important city and port in [[Saudi Arabia]] near the Red Sea. It is said that the history of the city goes back to the Stone Age. According to some accounts, Arabs and some [[Iran|Iranians]] were the main residents of Jeddah. After the emergence of [[Islam]], the city was ruled by the [[Umayyads]], the [[Abbasids]], the [[Fatimids]], the [[Ottomans]] and the [[Wahhabis]]. [['Abd al-Malik b. Ibrahim al-Jiddi]], and [[Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Kaziruni]] were prominent scholars of Jeddah. The city is known as the Bride of the Red Sea. It is the point of entry for pilgrims of [[hajj]]. It is a business center in Saudi Arabia, and the second largest city of the country, after [[Riyadh]], with a population of over 3,000,000 people. In recent centuries, many Iranian Shiites arrive in this city first when they go to the hajj pilgrimage, and then they go to [[Mecca]]. Iranian governments, such as the [[Qajar]] government, had an official consulate in Jeddah in order to take care of Iranian pilgrims.