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Medina
Medina , or ; also transliterated as Madinah, or madinat al-nabi "the city of the prophet") is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and it is historically significant for being his home after the Hijrah...
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622
9.24.622
Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
624
3.17.624
Muslim history: Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
644
11.3.644
Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is martyred by a Persian slave in Medina.