Brewer's: City of Refuge

(The). Medina, in Arabia, where Mahomet took refuge when driven by conspirators from Mecca. He entered the city, not as a fugitive, but in triumph, A.D. 622. (See under Cities Of Refuge , page 255.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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