Editing Medina (section)

====Second Ottoman period====
[[File:Wadi Rum railway track, Hejaz railway, Jordan.jpg|thumb|The [[Hejaz railway]] track near [[Wadi Rum]] in [[Jordan]]. Jordan uses the railway today for transporting [[phosphate]].]]
Four years in 1844, after Muhammad Ali's departure, [[Davud Pasha (governor of Medina)|Davud Pasha]] was given the position of governor of Medina under the Ottoman sultan. Davud was responsible for renovating the Prophet's Mosque on Sultan [[Abdulmejid I]]'s orders. When [[Abdul Hamid II]] assumed power, he made Medina stand out of the desert with a number of modern marvels, including a [[radio communication station]], a [[Power station|power plant]] for the Prophet's Mosque and its immediate vicinity, a telegraph line between Medina and [[Constantinople]], and the [[Hejaz railway]] which ran from [[Damascus]] to Medina with a planned extension to Mecca. Within one decade, the population of the city multiplied by leaps and bounds and reached 80,000. Around this time, Medina started falling prey to a new threat, the [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] [[Sharifate of Mecca]] in the south. Medina witnessed the longest siege in its history during and after [[World War I]].<ref name=":5" />