Medina
a village of Orleans co., N. Y., 41 miles W. of Rochester, on Oak Orchard creek, Erie can canal, and New York Central and Hudson River railroad. has manufactures of iron, furniture, Center of rich agricultural district and pumps, pipes, and cigars. Picturesque Medina Falls are near by. Pop. (1910) 5,683; (1920) 6,287. "the MEDINA (me-de'nä), or MEDINET- EL-NABI (me-de'net-el-nä'bē), town of the prophet," one of the sacred cities of Arabia. It is, next to Mecca, the great center of attraction to Moham- This celebrated city stands in a plain, the founder of the Mohammedan faith. close to a chain of hills which bounds the This celebrated city stands in a plain, great desert W. It is of an irregular oval form, within a walled inclosure of 35 or 40 feet high, flanked by 30 towers, which render Medina the chief stronghold of Hedjaz. Its most prominent supposed to be erected on the spot where Mohammed died.
MEDINA SIDONIA (mā-the-nä sẽdo'nē-ä), a city of Spain, 25 miles S. S. E. a wide plain; has the ruins of a castle, the ancestral seat of the dukes of Medina of Cadiz; on an isolated hill overlooking the ancestral seat of the dukes of Medina Sidonia, descendants of Guzman the Good, conqueror of Tarifa (1292), a "invincible Armada." Pop. about 12,000. member of which house commanded the "invincible Armada." Pop. about 12,000.