Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)' has mentioned 'Mecca' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| [26][27] So the term xe2x80x98Thamudxe2x80x99 was not applied to the groups that lived in Mada'in Salih, such as Lihyanites and Nabataeans,[28][29] but rather to the region itself, and according to classical sources, it was agreed upon that the only remaining group of the native people of Thamud are the tribe of Banu Thaqif which inhabited the city of Taif south of Mecca. | WIKI |
| [37] It was only sporadically mentioned by travelers and pilgrims making their way to Mecca in the succeeding centuries. | WIKI |
| [39] In early Ottoman accounts of the Hajj road between Damascus and Mecca, Hegra (Madaxe2x80x99in Salih) is not mentioned, until 1672, when the Turkish traveler, Evliya Celebi noted that the caravan passed through a place called "Abyar Salih" where there were the remains of seven cities. | WIKI |
| [40] It was part of a series of fortifications built to protect the pilgrimage route to Mecca. | WIKI |
| [21][37] This continued until the 20th century, when the Hejaz Railway that passed through the site was constructed (1901xe2x80x9308) on the orders of Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to link Damascus and Jerusalem in the north-west with Medina and Mecca,[21][37] hence facilitating the pilgrimage journey to the latter and to politically and economically consolidate the Ottoman administration of the centers of Islamic faith. | WIKI |
| Although the Nabataean city was abandoned during the pre-Islamic period, the route continued to play its international role for caravans and then for the pilgrimage to Mecca, up to its modernisation by the construction of the railway at the start of the 20th century. | UNESCO |