Medina

Examples

• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were not men of Medina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was inevitable that Mecca and Medina should be in a state of rivalry and bickering feud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Medina and Mecca were now only of importance as pilgrimage centres, to which the faithful turned to pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Probably the numerous Jews in Medina had shaken the ancient idolatry of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Assisted by a Persian convert, Muhammad had entrenched himself in Medina! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was a party of Arabs, who came by sea to Canton in a trading vessel from Yanbu, the port of Medina in Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These things were latent in the mind and conscience of Mecca and Medina; he did but call them forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His claims formed an undertow to the resentment of Medina and of the rival families of Mecca against the advancement of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Mecca resolved to avenge Badr, and at the battle of Uhud, near Medina, inflicted an indecisive defeat upon the Prophet's followers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When this was told to the sender far away in the squalid little town of Medina, he was very angry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1865 this man was a successful manufacturer of jewelry in the village of Medina. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A year before his death, at the end of the tenth year of the Hegira, Muhammad made his last pilgrimage from Medina to Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There began a puritan reaction in Mecca and Medina against the levity and luxury of Damascus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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