Assertion: mecca | /r/HasProperty | city
Facets:
value: along these trade routes
type: LOCATION
value: in western saudi arabia
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Mecca is a city in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia that is also capital of the Makkah Region.
text: Football is the most popular sport in Mecca, the city hosting some of the oldest sport clubs in Saudi Arabia such as, Al-Wahda FC (established in 1945).
text: Mecca, also called the ancient Bakkah, is a city in western Saudi Arabia, located in the mountains of Ṣirāt, inland from the Red Sea coast.
text: what is Mecca” is that it is a city where Muhammad was born around 570 approximately, and where he lived until he had to flee due to a religious persecution of which he was a victim in 622 approximately.
text: Mecca was a city along these trade routes, and may have played a role in the flow of goods and ideas between the trade systems of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean*.
text: To determine the proper direction, one has to know with some precision both the longitude and latitude of one's own location and those of Mecca, the city toward which one must face.
text: If Mecca had existed before Khuzaah’s emigration from Yemen, Mecca would have been the city to which they would go to search out a living, even as their sister tribes, Oas and Khazraj, went to Yathrib to benefit from commerce and agricultural activities of the Jewish tribes there.