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Medina of Fez

Medina of Fez (Fes el-Bali and Fes Jedid), Morocco's 9th-century walled old city and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1981, home of the Qarawiyyin university and Marinid monuments.

Medina of Marrakesh

The Medina of Marrakesh is the walled historic old town of Marrakesh, Morocco, founded by the Almoravids around 1070–1072 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985.

Medina of Sousse

The Medina of Sousse (مدينة سوسة) is the walled old town of Sousse, a port city on Tunisia's Sahel coast, inscribed by UNESCO in 1988.

Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)

Medina of Tétouan (Titawin), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997 in northern Morocco; Andalusian-refugee-built walled medina, 6.5 ha, 5 km wall, seven gates, criteria ii, iv, v.

Medina of Tunis

Medina of Tunis (مدينة تونس القديمة), the historic walled Arabo-Muslim old town of Tunis founded in 698 A.D.; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 with about 700 monuments, Zitouna Mosque, souks, and 296.41 ha property.

Medina Spirit

Medina Spirit, 2021 Kentucky Derby first finisher for Bob Baffert and Zedan Racing Stables, disqualified February 2022 after a betamethasone positive; died December 2021; Mandaloun elevated to winner.

Medina-Sidonia

Medina-Sidonia (Medina Sidonia) is a historic hilltop town in central Cádiz province, Andalusia: 487.15 km², 11,870 people (2025), Phoenician-founded, Roman Asido Caesarina, seat of the Duchy of Medina Sidonia.

Medina, Washington

Medina, Washington: small affluent residential city in King County on Lake Washington's eastern shore, northwest of Bellevue; incorporated 1955, ZIP 98039 is the state's priciest, home to Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

Medinet Habu

Medinet Habu, also known as Madinat Habu, is the best-preserved mortuary temple of Ramesses III, built on the Theban west bank at Luxor around 1184–1153 BC.

Medinet Habu (Djeme)

Djeme, also known as Jeme, was a town inside the temple precinct of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor, occupied from about 1098 BC to the 9th century AD.

Medinet Habu (Gods Wife of Amun chapels)

The God's Wife of Amun chapels at Medinet Habu are stone memorial chapels for the Divine Adoratrices of Amun at Thebes, built in the 8th to 6th centuries BC.

Medinet Habu (Small Temple)

The Small Temple of Medinet Habu, also called the Temple of Amun of Djeme, is a temple of Amun-Re on the Theban west bank, begun around 1460 BC.

Medinet Habu king list

The Medinet Habu king list is a carved relief in Ramesses III's mortuary temple at Thebes, showing sixteen cartouches naming nine kings, modeled on the Ramesseum king list.

Medinet Habu reliefs of Ramesses III

The Medinet Habu reliefs of Ramesses III are carved war scenes at his mortuary temple in Thebes, Egypt, recording the Sea Peoples and Libyan wars.

Medinet Madi

Medinet Madi, also known as Medinet Maadi, is a temple site in the Fayum, Egypt, centered on a 12th Dynasty temple of the goddess Renenutet and the god Sobek.

Medini Rai

Medini Rai (मेदिनी राय), originally named Rai Chand, was a Purabiya Rajput chief who served as wazir of Malwa and died in 1528 defending Chanderi against Babur.

Medinilla

Medinilla (Medinilla Gaudich. ex DC.) is a paleotropical genus of about 370-390 shrubby Melastomataceae species, recently redefined to include Pachycentria and Plethiandra, with showy ornamentals like M. magnifica.

Medinīpur

Medinīpur (মেদিনীপুর), also Midnapore, is a town in West Bengal, India, headquarters of Paschim Medinipur district on the Kangsabati River; 2011 population 169,127, municipality founded 1865.

Mediobanca

Mediobanca is an Italian investment bank founded in Milan in 1946, long the hub of the "salotto buono" and controlled by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena since 2025.

Mediocantus

Mediocantus, also called Médiocantus, an ancient place in Gaul cited as Barrington Atlas 14 H2 and identified with La Celle, France; known as the sixth-century hermitage of Patroclus of Bourges in Gregory of Tours.

Mediolanum

Mediolanum was an ancient Celtic and Roman city in Cisalpine Gaul that served as the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 286 to 402 AD.

Medion

Medion is a German consumer electronics company based in Essen, founded in 1983 by Gerd Brachmann, known for discount PCs sold through the supermarket chain Aldi.

Medipal Holdings

Medipal Holdings Corporation (メディパルホールディングス株式会社) is a Japanese holding company wholesaling prescription drugs, medical products, and cosmetics between manufacturers and healthcare providers, Japan's largest wholesaler by revenue.

Medipix

Medipix is a family of hybrid pixel detector readout chips developed by CERN collaborations, counting individual photons for noise-free X-ray imaging, space dosimetry, and material analysis.

Meditation

Meditation is a mind-body practice of focusing attention on the breath, a word, or an object to calm the mind, with moderate evidence for reducing anxiety, depression, and pain.

Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν)

Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, 'To Himself') is Marcus Aurelius's private Greek Stoic notebook of twelve books and 486 chapters, written for his own moral improvement, preserved via one Vatican codex and first printed in 1559.

Meditations in Time of Civil War

Meditations in Time of Civil War is a sequence of seven poems by W. B. Yeats, written during the Irish Civil War and first published in 1924.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditationes de prima philosophia, 1641) is a metaphysical work arguing from systematic doubt to the cogito, God's existence, and the real distinction of mind from body, published with six (later seven) sets of Objections and Replies.

MEDITECH

MEDITECH (Medical Information Technology, Inc.) is an American company founded in 1969 that develops electronic health record software for hospitals, best known for its web-based MEDITECH Expanse platform.

Mediterranea

Mediterranea is a genus of Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria in Bacteroidaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes, proposed in 2016 in Marseille; type species Mediterranea massiliensis from the human colon, distinct from Marinomonas mediterranea and Mediterraneibacter.