Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,077 metres (3,533 ft)
- Prominence
- 377 metres (1,237 ft)
- Coordinates
- 24°30′37″N 039°36′50″E / 24.51028°N 39.61389°E / 24.51028; 39.61389 ( Mount Uhud )
- Location
- Medina , Hejaz , Saudi Arabia
- Province
- Al Madinah Region
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Image
- Mount Uhud.JPG
- Significant event
- Battle of Uhud
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- Commons category
- Mount Uhud
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Uhud (Arabic: جَبَل أُحُد, romanized: Jabal Uḥud, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [dʒa.bal ʔʊ.ħʊd]) is a mountain north of Medina, in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. It is 1,077 m (3,533 ft) high and 7.5 km (4.7 miles) long. It was the site of the second battle between the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the polytheists of his tribe of Quraysh. The Battle of Uhud was fought on 19 March, 625 CE, between a force from the small Muslim community of Medina and a force from Mecca, in north-western Arabia.
Battle of Uhud
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Uhud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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