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Yanbu

ينبع

Red Sea port on the Hejaz coast, long the port of Medina.

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Yanbu is a port on the Hijaz coast of the Red Sea, and it was the port of Medina from ancient times. 1

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Birthplace of
Ahmed Elsayed

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Medina· Ahmed Elsayed

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  1. GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Yanbu”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/yanbu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Medina

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib.