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Ar Rafay'ah Destination Guide

Explore Ar Rafay'ah in Egypt

Ar Rafay'ah in the region of Ad Daqahlīyah is a place in Egypt - some 88 mi or ( 141 km ) North-East of Cairo , the country's capital city .

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Time in Ar Rafay'ah is now 01:43 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Cairo " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Tyre, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Mit ash Shuyukh. Since you are here already, consider visiting Tyre . Where to go and what to see in Ar Rafay'ah ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Interesting facts about this location

Damietta University

Damietta University is an extension of Mansoura University in Damietta, in the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. The idea of opening classes for some faculties there began when the number of Mansoura University students in Damietta increased. The decision to open branch colleges followed.

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Located at 31.23 31.83 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Damietta, Universities in Egypt

Damietta

Damietta, also known as Damiata, or Domyat, is a port and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, a distributary of the Nile, 15 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, about 200 kilometres north of Cairo.

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Located at 31.42 31.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 23 km away
Tags: Crusade places, Damietta, Governorate capitals in Egypt, Nile River Delta, Populated coastal places in Egypt, Populated places in Damietta Governorate

Caphutkia

Caphutkia (also Capotakia or Kapotakia) in Aramaic קפוטקיא, קפוטקאי, קפודקאי, (later Katpatuka in Old Persian) was the name used in mediaeval Jewish and Syriac writings for the town in the vicinity of the former Ptolemaic city of Pelusium and its later Arab counterpart Damietta. Caphutkia is mentioned in the Targums and the Syriac commentary on Genesis where it is identified with the locality called Caphtor in the Bible.

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Located at 31.42 31.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 23 km away
Tags: Medieval Egypt