Ahistorical public school bullshit. There have been passports as long as there has been writing. The first US passports were issued during the revolution. Post WWI there were understandably more contr...
Photo from 1900
From inside the Hijaz train, which used to connect Istanbul to the Hijaz, passing through Syria, Palestine and Jordan.. In the picture there are passengers from the Levant, Iraq, Mount Lebanon and Turkey
They all ride on the same train without visas, passports, or even an identity card.
They move between the ancient cities of the Levant to Jerusalem, then continue the road to the oases of Jordan, to reach the deserts of Hijaz, Mecca and Medina, as if they were on a bus transporting them from one neighborhood to another within one city.
From inside the Hijaz train, which used to connect Istanbul to the Hijaz, passing through Syria, Palestine and Jordan.. In the picture there are passengers from the Levant, Iraq, Mount Lebanon and Turkey
They all ride on the same train without visas, passports, or even an identity card.
They move between the ancient cities of the Levant to Jerusalem, then continue the road to the oases of Jordan, to reach the deserts of Hijaz, Mecca and Medina, as if they were on a bus transporting them from one neighborhood to another within one city.
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