Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. And the Roman Empire was in turmoil. Civil war had engulfed the empire's capital city. Dictators seized power. The Roman future looked bleak.
Medina (/mÉËdiËnÉ/; Arabic: Ø§ÙÙØ¯ÙÙØ© Ø§ÙÙÙÙØ±Ø©ââ, al-MadÄ«nah al-Munawwarah, the radiant city; or Ø§ÙÙØ¯ÙÙØ©, al-MadÄ«nah (Hejazi pronunciation: ), the city), also transliterated as MadÄ«nah, is a city in the Hejaz region of the Arabian Peninsula, located in present-day Saudi Arabia and is also the capital of its Al Madinah Region.
The population of Medina was listed as 515 in 1990, but the actual number of residents in Medina proper was closer to 250. By 2000 the population had more than doubled to 515 residents. Bandera County History Book Committee, History of Bandera County, Texas (Dallas: Curtis, 1986).