Mada'in Salih

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Region: Arabia
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Al-Hijr is a site on the Syrian road with remains of the people of Thamud. Ibn Battuta mentions it in his travels. ¹

The coordinates match a modern town of the same name; an additional source is needed to confirm the identification.

Sources

Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958

GeoNames gazetteer

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islam.museum contributors. “Mada'in Salih”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/hijr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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