Rafah
| Rafah | |
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| Ither transcription(s) | |
| - Arabic | رفح |
  Rafah
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| Coordinates: 31°17′19″N 34°15′07″E / 31.28861°N 34.25194°E | |
| Govrenorate | Rafah |
| Govrenment | |
| - Heid o Municipality | Sa'ad Zoarub |
| Indwallers (2006)[1] | |
| - Jurisdiction | 71,003 |
Rafah (Arabic: رفح), kent an aw as Rafiah, is a Palestinian ceety in the soothren Gaza Strip. Locatit 30 kilometers ({{rnd/cExpression error: Unexpected < operator.decExpression error: Unexpected < operator.|Expression error: Unexpected < operator.|(Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".)}} mi) sooth o Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003[1] is owerwhelmingly made up o Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp an Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate. Yasser Arafat International Airport, Gaza's anerlie airport, is locatit juist sooth o the ceety. Rafah is the steid o the Rafah Border Crossin, the anerlie crossin atween the Gaza Strip an Egyp.
[edit] Etymology
Ower the ages it haes been kent as "Robihwa" bi the auncient Egyptians, "Rafihu" bi the Assiries, "Ῥαφία, Rhaphia"[2] bi the Greeks, "Raphia" bi Romans, "Raphiaḥ" [pronooncit Rafiach] bi the Israelites, "Rafh" bi the Arab Caliphate.
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PCBS [Palestian Central Bureau of Statisctics (PCBS) Projected Mid-Year Population for Rafah Governorate by Locality 2004-2006]
- ↑ Polybii Historiae [5,80].
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