Madyan - مدين
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Madyan; مدين; Madiane; Midian
[A] town on the east side of the Gulf of Akaba. The name is, connected with that of the tribe of Midianites known from the Old Testament (lxx.: Μαδιαμ, Μαδιαν; in Josephus Μαδιηνίται, ή Μαδιηνὴ χωρα) but it can hardly be used without further consideration to identify the original home of this tribe, as the town might be a later Midianite settlement and besides it is difficult to fix the real home of such wandering tribes.
ويحيط بها بحر فارس من عبادان وهو مصب ماء دجلة في البحر فيمتد على البحرين حتى ينتهى الى عمان ثم يعطف على سواحل مهرة وحضرموت وعدن حتى ينتهى الى سواحل اليمن الى جدة ثم يمتدعلى الجار ومدين حتى ينتهي الى أيلة
location: 28.75 34.75
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5359
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5359
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746776
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 17
Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition M. Th.Houtsma
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746776 Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.