Medina

Medina (??????? ???????, or ???????; also transliterated as Madinah; officially al-Mad?nah al-Munawwarah), the city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province

Location

Saudi Arabia, Al Madinah, Ottoman Empire

Location of

▶ Battle of Uhud, Islamic University of Madinah, Rashidun army, Siege of Medina, Battle of Al-Safra,  …

Battle of al-Harrah, Battle of Medina, Banu Qaynuqa, Taibah University, Harrat Khaybar, Battle of the Trench

Population

1,300,000

Area

589 square kilometres; 173,000 square kilometres

Births

▶ Husayn ibn Ali, Hasan ibn Ali, Bobby Rahal, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Ibn Ishaq,  …

Ali al-Rida, Malik ibn Anas, Muhammad al-Baqir, Safiyya bint Huyayy, Hasan al-Askari, Zaynab bint Ali, Ali ibn Hussayn, Ali al-Hadi, Hasan al-Basri, Musa al-Kazim, Zayd ibn Ali, Muhammad al-Taqi, Al-Waqidi, Al-Abbas ibn Ali, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, Redha Tukar, Shaker Aamer, Umar II, Ahmed Al-Fraidi, Ali Akbar ibn Husayn, Ali Asghar ibn Hussain, Qasim ibn Hasan, Urwah ibn Zubayr, Muhammad Hamid Al Qarani, Ubayy ibn Kab, Hamzah Idris, Abdul Rahman Shalabi, Hasan of Basra, Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, Fawaz Abd Al Aziz Al Zahrani, Kuthayyir, Abdulrahman al-Ansary, Mohammed el Gharani, Yahya ibn Ma'in, Musa Abed Al Wahab, Sabria Jawhar, Mohamed el Gharani, Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi, Muhammad Hamid al-Qarani, Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani, Mazin Salih Musaid, Tariqe Shallah Hassan Al Harbi

Capital of

Rashidun Caliphate

Elevation

1,995 feet (608.1 metres)

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina

Closest Airport

Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport

Deaths

▶ Muhammad, Aisha, Abu Bakr, Umar, Hasan ibn Ali,  …

Uthman, Bilal ibn Ribah, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Imam Shamil, Sa`ad ibn Abi Waqqas

Coordinates

24°28'008.4"N, 24°27'60"N, 24°28'01"N, 39°36'36"E

Residents

Abu Bakr

Class

▶ settlement, city, town or city, populated place, university city,  …

geographical area

Gns Unique Feature Identifier

"-3092186"

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004934d"

Related Websites

▶ http://www.flickr.com/photos/noushadali, http://www.madinahvision.com/index.html, http://www.splendidarabia.com/location/madinah, http://www.fullviewdesign.co.uk/prophetsmosque.html, http://www.splendidarabia.com,  …

http://www.zubeyr-kureemun.com/SaudiArabia/MedinaMunawwara.htm, http://www.ibtada.com/ibtada.php?cur_page=main&sub=submain&mainpage=tarakhi_mukam_ki_sair&page=international&pgno=1

Open Calais URI

http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/493057db-edf6-3d9d-d3f9-f2b95a4c14c3

Buried

Chupan

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/109223/

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Medina

Rare Terms

▶ "almadinah almunawwarah"; "madinah"; "madina"; "al-madinah al-munawwarah"; "al madinah in saudi arabia";  …

"al madinah saudi arabia"; "al madinah, saudi arabia"; "medina in saudi arabia"; "medina saudi arabia"; "medina, saudi arabia"; "al madinah"; "al madina"

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/094vf"