Khaybar
Khaybar is an oasis in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia, situated some 153 kilometres north of the city of Medina. Prior to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century, the area had been inhabited by Arabian Jewish tribes until it fell to Muslims under Muhammad during the Battle of Khaybar in 628 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: oasis with 16,100 residents
- Description: oasis in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Khayber” and “Khebar”
Khaybar
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
Population
16,100Wikidata ID
Q27125
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khaybar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خيبر”
- Azerbaijani: “Xeybər”
- Bengali: “খায়বার”
- Catalan: “Khaybar”
- Catalan: “Khàybar”
- Central Kurdish: “خەیبەر”
- Chinese: “海拜爾”
- Dutch: “Khaybar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خيبر”
- French: “Khaybar”
- German: “Chaibar”
- German: “Ḫaibar”
- German: “Khaibar”
- Hebrew: “ח’יבר”
- Hebrew: “ח’ייבר”
- Hebrew: “חייבר”
- Hindi: “खेबर”
- Hindi: “खैबर”
- Hindi: “ख़ैबर”
- Indonesian: “Khaybar”
- Irish: “Khaybar”
- Italian: “Khaybar”
- Japanese: “カイバー”
- Japanese: “ハイバル”
- Kazakh: “Хайбар”
- Korean: “카이바르”
- Malay: “Khaibar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khaybar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Khaybar”
- Persian: “خیبر”
- Polish: “Chajbar”
- Polish: “Hajbar”
- Russian: “Хайбар”
- Serbian: “Хајбар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hajbar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Khaybar”
- Sindhi: “خيبر”
- Slovenian: “Hajbar”
- South Azerbaijani: “خیبر”
- Spanish: “Jáibar”
- Spanish: “Khaybar”
- Swedish: “Khaybar”
- Turkish: “Hayber”
- Urdu: “خیبر”
- Uzbek: “Haybar”
- Western Panjabi: “خیبر، سعودی عرب”
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