Yathrib

British

/ ˈjæθrɪb /

noun

the ancient Arabic name for Medina

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Sunnis displaced by fighting have only recently begun to return to the nearby city of Yathrib, amid fears that mutual suspicion between them and nearby Shiite tribal communities could lead to violence.

From The Wall Street Journal

And an Iraqi military helicopter, trying to hit targets belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, killed an innocent pair of brothers Saturday in the town of Yathrib.

From Time

Eyewitnesses said the airbase near the town of Yathrib, 90km north of Baghdad, had been surrounded on three sides.

From The Guardian

Having also taken two small towns north of Baghdad, Dhiluiya and Yathrib, the insurgents are in control of between 10 and 15 pct of Iraqi territory, excluding Kurdistan, and have led many Iraqis to fear they have the capital, Baghdad, in their sights.

From Reuters

In the first centuries of this era, two great kingdoms, Yathrib and Chaibar, flourished there, and it is altogether probable that Jews were constantly emigrating thither.

From Project Gutenberg

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