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-'''Raphia''' (modern ''Raphah'', Gaza Strip) was a city on the Mediterranean coast.
+#REDIRECT [[:Category:Raphia (subject)]]
-==History==
-Raphia was a very old settlement, already recorded in Egyptian and Assyrian sources. It became famous in 217 BCE through the [[Battle of Raphia]] when [[Ptolemy IV Philopator]] defeated [[Antiochus the Great]]. In 193 BCE [[Ptolemy V Epiphanes]] married at Raphia [[Cleopatra]], daughter of [[Antiochus the Great]]. Raphia was then conquered at the beginning of the first century BCE by [[Alexander Jannaeus]] and included in the Hasmonean Kingdom, from which it was separated by the Roman conquest by [[Pompey]] in 63 BCE. [[Gabinius]] rebuilt the city, which would never return into Jewish possession.
-==Raphia in ancient sources==
-====Josephus, Jewish War====
-====Josephus, Jewish Antiquities====
-==Raphia in Scholarship==
-==Raphia in Fiction==
-==Related categories==
-==References==
-*Raphia / [[The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987 Schurer / Vermes), book]] / 2 (1979) 97-98
-==External links==
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphia_(town) Wikipedia]
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 [[Category:Places]]