Mecca

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天方國
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Literally "Heavenly Square", which referred to the ka'ba in Mecca, located in what is today Saudi Arabia. For Ma Huan's account of Mecca, see Mills (1970; 173-78).

For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Chen, Xie and Lu (1986; 186, 187, 998).

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