The pilgrims resisted.

Hajj pilgrims heading to Mecca from Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan.

The number of pilgrims who visit some of these shrines every year can be significant.

It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits.

Legend has it that the king was the first pilgrim to this shrine.

A large number of pilgrims remain in detention, among them 15 teenage boys.

Three pilgrims died and hundreds were injured in the ensuing stampede.

Tourism, particularly by Indian pilgrims to a major Hindu holy site in Tibet, is thriving.

Calls for greater coordination and cooperation among Member States in the area of health through the enforcement of international health regulations, such as vaccination of pilgrims going to the Holy Land, improvement of health conditions in addition to cooperation on health sensitization before Pilgrims' departure through the media in their countries.

Tourism, particularly by Indian pilgrims to the major Hindu holy sites in Tibet, Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar, is thriving.

Window on Eurasia reports that Saudi Arabia has cut Russia s hajj quota, creating problems for Dmitry Medvedev.

Recently he claimed that Muslim pilgrims, rather than Christopher Columbus, discovered America, and suggested a mosque should be built in Cuba to honour the fact.

The remaining nine years saw an increase in demands from the Mamluks, including tribute, as well as increased persecution of pilgrims, all in contravention of the truce.

In 1291 a group of pilgrims from Acre came under attack and in retaliation killed nineteen Muslim merchants in a Syrian caravan.

Indeed, the risk that Pakistani pilgrims could carry the problem with them on the 2013 Hajj, the largest annual congregation of Muslims, is not just a theoretical threat.

France attracts many religious pilgrims on their way to St. James, or to Lourdes, a town in the Hautes Pyrénées that hosts several million visitors a year.

Norway lost the steady stream of pilgrims to the relics of St. Olav at the Nidaros shrine, and with them, much of the contact with cultural and economic life in the rest of Europe.

Thus, the Mutawa ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.

They raided Baghdad and in 930 sacked Mecca and Medina, desecrating the Zamzam Well with the bodies of Hajj pilgrim and taking the Black Stone with them back to Bahrain where it remained for twenty years.

Some 2,000 Shia pilgrims gathered near the mosque that houses the Prophet s tomb for the commemoration of Mohamed s death, an act of worship that the ruling Saudi Wahhabi sect considers heretical and idolatrous.

Saudi pressure on Somaliland has ranged from banning livestock imports between 1996 2006, to threatening to reject the Somaliland passports of Hajj pilgrims.

Palestine was six decades ago ours! Palestine was the place pilgrims to Mecca used to stop by six decades ago on their way to and from Hajj. Palestine, which was just a few decades ago administratively under Egypt's rule.

It is not uncommon for pilgrims from, say, India or Indonesia to adopt strict, conservative tenets after their return from Mecca. As influence is ultimately a matter of numbers, it should come as no surprise that the Saudis seek to maximize the inflows of Muslim pilgrims each year.