Thomas A. Carlson (ed.), "Mecca" in last modified August 9, 2017, http://syriaca.org/place/2906 Mecca مكّة مكة A city in Arabia, regarded by Muslims as the holiest city 21.426804 39.815421 Attestation of name مكة in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī. Attestation of name مكّة in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah. http://syriaca.org/place/2906 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29652 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca https://dbpedia.org/resource/Mecca The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 86, 220 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29652 Kitāb al-buldān Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī 269 Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah 24