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Badr

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Badr is a town in the Hijaz southwest of Medina, near the wells around which the Battle of Badr turned in 624 CE.

Badr, a town in the Hijaz southwest of Medina, near the wells around which the Battle of Badr turned in 624 CE; its rough coordinates are 23.77 north, 38.79 east. Among the museum's recorded events that took place there: the great battle of Badr and the Badr duel (624 CE), the expedition of Badr al-Maw'id (626 CE), and al-Qulayb, the burial of the fallen polytheists of Badr.

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