In a single decade, the population of town multiplied by leaps and bounds and achieved 80,000. Around this time, Medina begun slipping prey to a fresh threat, the Hashemite Sharifate of Mecca in the south. Medina witnessed the longest siege in its record through and soon after Planet War I.[5] https://stephen2co41.alltdesign.com/the-2-minute-rule-for-al-madinah-al-munawwarah-51009508