Luckily H is a fairly uncommon letter for countries so there is only 1 country missing from this section. HEJAZ a Provence of Saudi Arabia and only produced notes in 1924 (1343 in the Islamic calendar)
The Islamic calendar:
How to work out the year:
Years are counted since the Hijra, that is, Prophet Mohammed's (Peace be upon him) migration to Medina, which is assumed to have taken place 16 July C.E. 622 (Julian calendar). On that date AH 1 started (AH = Anno Hegirae = year of the Hijra).
Note that although only 2013 - 622 = 1391 years have passed in the Christian calendar, 1434 years have passed in the Islamic calendar, because its year is consistently shorter (by about 11 days) than the tropical year used by the Christian calendar.
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