medina quarter
Sign in to savedistinct city section found in many North African cities
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- neighborhood
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Encyclopedic overview
A medina (from Arabic: مدينة, romanized: madīnah, lit. 'city') is a historical district in a number of North African cities, often corresponding to an old walled city. The term comes from the Arabic word simply meaning "city" or "town".
Historical background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “medina quarter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.