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ID: 7001392
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001392
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Rafaḥ (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (occupied territory)  ........  Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (occupied territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Rafaḥ (inhabited place)  ............  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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