Midian

Midian (/ˈmɪdiən/; Hebrew:מִדְיָן‎), Madyan (Arabic:مدين‎), or Madiam (Greek: Μαδιάμ) is a geographical place and the Midianites a people mentioned in the Torah and in the Qur'an. Scholars generally consider it to have been located in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea", and have long associated it with the region of Modiana reported in that same area by Ptolemy.