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1 giorno fa · Mecca, city, western Saudi Arabia, located in the Ṣirāt Mountains, inland from the Red Sea coast. It is the holiest of Muslim cities. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born in Mecca, and it is toward this religious center that Muslims turn five times daily in prayer (see qiblah).
1 giorno fa · Located at the core of the Medina Province in the western reaches of the country, the city is distributed over 589 km 2 (227 sq mi), of which 293 km 2 (113 sq mi) constitutes the city's urban area, while the rest is occupied by the Hejaz Mountains, empty valleys, agricultural spaces and older dormant volcanoes .
2 giorni fa · With a population of about 3,751,722 people as of 2022, Jeddah is the largest city in Makkah Province, [7] the largest city in Hejaz, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia (after the capital Riyadh ), and the ninth-largest in the Middle East. It also serves as the administrative centre of the OIC.
4 giorni fa · Medina is a city in Saudi Arabia and the second holiest city in Islam. It was in Medina (formerly Yathrib) that Muhammad, after fleeing Mecca in an event known as the hijrah, established the Muslim community (ummah).
4 giorni fa · At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.
4 giorni fa · Jeddah is a c city and major port in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. Lying to the west of Mecca, its principal importance historically was as a Red Sea port for Islam’s holiest city, thus serving as a landing point for many Muslim pilgrims and foreign diplomats.
21 giu 2024 · The official death toll from this year’s Hajj pilgrimage has soared to almost 500 and the true toll could be more than double that as reports emerged that as many as 600 Egyptian worshipers...
