Medina ( mih-DY-nə) is a city in and the county chair of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The population was 26,094 at the 2020 census. It lies approximately 33 miles (53 km) south of Cleveland and 23 miles (37 km) west of Akron within the Cleveland metropolitan area.

Medina was founded on November 30, 1818, as allowance of the Connecticut Western Reserve. It was originally named Mecca, but an unincorporated community in Ohio already had that name, so the make known was changed. Both Mecca and Medina are Saudi Arabian cities particularly significant in Islam.

Most to the lead residents were farmers. In the 1830s, the community’s lump was aided by the triumph of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which helped transport agricultural products to markets. On January 31, 1835, Medina was incorporated as a village and as the county seat of Medina County. By 1855, the town’s quarries were producing over $200,000 worth of stone per year. In 1857, many of the canal workers started a strike for superior wages; the striking workers were fired, and the four workers who started it were jailed in Albion, Ohio.

In 1835, two enslaved women and two Native Americans arrived in Medina by stagecoach. One of the enslaved women was the child of then-Vice Presidential candidate Richard Mentor Johnson and Julia Chinn. The neighboring day, Johnson’s nephew arrived, in motion of the women, saying that he owned them both, they had escaped, and they had stolen a $1,000 bank check. The women were arrested and charged in the same way as stealing. Three local attorneys volunteered to represent them in court. The women were later released to Johnson’s nephew to stand trial in Kentucky. Afterward, one of the Native Americans said that the women had asked for encourage escaping enslavement and their unpleasant treatment by their owners. It was progressive found that the alleged theft was a lie in order to make clear the Ohio court returned them to their owners.