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Location: Vladimir Vladimirskaya Oblast Russia

...the northern coast, starting in the middle …

Years: 1684 - 1827
...the northern coast, starting in the middle of the eighteenth century, passes under the sharifs of Mecca, who hold their feeble authority on behalf of the declining Ottomans.

The Mecca sharifs, much like the sultans of Zanzibar, satisfy themselves with a token yearly tribute collected for them by a native governor.