READER ADS: FREE online business | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Mecca Arabic: makka City in Saudi Arabia with 618, 000 inhabitants. Mecca is located about 80 km from the Red Sea Coast, around a natural well. Mecca is the most holy city in Islam. The city is revered from being the first place created on earth, as well as the place where ...

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