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ID: 7001392 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001392			Record Type: administrative

Rafaḥ (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 18 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 31.3000 decimal degrees
Long: 034 15 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 34.2500 decimal degrees

Note: Located on Sinai peninsula; is made up of 2 adjacent towns that were united after the Arab-Israeli war of 1967; site of important battles in 720 BC (Sargon II's defeat of Philistines & Egyptians) & 217 BC; served as a British military base in World War I.

Names:

Rafaḥ (preferred,C,V)
Rafah (C,O)
Er Rafa (C,O)
Rafiah (C,O)
Rafa (C,O)
Raphia (H,V)	............	ancient

Hierarchical Position:

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Gaza Strip (occupied territory) (P)

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Rafaḥ (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
historic site (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Er Rafa..........	[VP]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 770

Rafa..........	[VP]
...........	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 770

Rafaḥ..........	[VP Preferred]
..............	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)

Rafah..........	[VP]
..............	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 161

Rafiah..........	[VP]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 770

Raphia..........	[VP]
.................	Times Atlas of World History (1993) 86/3

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 770
..................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 161
..................	Times Atlas of World History (1993) 86/3


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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