medina

noun1

1. •
   The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town.

   • Although Hicham usually worked in the new town, he still lived in the medina.

noun2

1. •
   A major city, the capital of Medina province, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hijra was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.
2. •
   A province of Saudi Arabia.