Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/04/Category:Arabian Kingdom in the 9th century

Category:Arabian Kingdom in the 9th century[edit]

There is a multitude of categories about an ominous "Arabian Kingdom", all of them seemingly created to maintain the fiction of a continuous "Pan-Arabic Realm" that exists since the Islamic Conquest or even earlier. This entity included the Caliphates until the begin of Ottoman rule, then it is more constricted to all history of the Arabian Peninsula and finally merges seamlessly into the Saudi Arabian monarchy and its history.

Examples of some things I found and already corrected to the best of my knowledge, and the categories those were placed in:

File:Pilgrim Flask LACMA M.2002.1.240 (2 of 2).jpg --> "Hajj 800s", implying that this vessel was used in that very decade during Hajj ? --> and this category was then included in "Arabian Kingdom in the 9th century"
Category:Military of Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War (20th c.) --> "Wars of the Arabian Kingdom"
Category:Ottoman-Saudi War (19th c.) --> "Wars of the Arabian Kingdom"
Category:Basous war (5th c.) --> "Wars of the Arabian Kingdom"
Category:North Yemen Civil War (20th c.) --> "Wars of the Arabian Kingdom"
Category:Midian (yes, the ancient region) --> "Historical regions in the Arabian Kingdom"
File:Battle of Talas.png (8th c. in today's Uzbekistan (!)) --> "Military history of the Arabian Kingdom"
Category:Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal (18th c.) --> "War ministers of the Arabian Kingdom"

Examples of still existing categories:

It's positive that the creator(s) of those categories didn't claim that Saudi-Arabia existed in the 8th century, but in my opinion, historical stuff prior to the 20th century should be categorized under "Arabia" or "Arabian Peninsula", to remain neutral. Enyavar (talk) 14:46, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/04/Category:Arabian Kingdom in the 9th century

Category:Arabian Kingdom in the 9th century[edit]

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