The Old City in Mecca (Old Town in The Middle East)

Mecca Makkah, pronounced  is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Saudi Arabia in Makkah province. The city is located 73 km (45 mi) inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m (909 ft) above sea level. Its resident population in 2008 was 1.7 million, although visitors more than double this number every year during Hajj period held in the twelfth lunar Muslim month of Dhu al-Hijjah. As the Birthplace of Muhammad and a site of the composition of the Koran, Mecca is regarded as the

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