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Rafa (other)
Rafa is a masculine given name. Rafa or RAFA may also refer to: Rafa * Rafa, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in central northeast Poland * Battle of Rafa, a First World War victory by the British Empire over the Ottoman Empire * Rafael (given name), abbreviated as "Rafa" * Rafaela (given name), abbreviated as "Rafa"; see Rafaela (other) RAFA * Royal Air Forces Association * Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts, a division of the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka See also * Rafah (other) * Raffa (other) * {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafa
Rafa is a masculine given name, mostly as a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Raphael (given name), Rafael. It may refer to: People * Rafael Nadal (born 1986), Spanish tennis player * Rafa (footballer, born 1985), Spanish footballer Rafael López Gómez * Rafael Benítez (born 1960), Spanish football manager and former player * Rafa Cabrera-Bello (born 1984), Spanish golfer * Rafa Gálvez (born 1993), Spanish footballer * Rafa Gil (born 1975), Spanish football manager * Rafa Gómez (footballer, born 1983), Rafa Gómez (born 1983), Spanish footballer * Rafa (footballer, born 1970), Spanish retired football goalkeeper * Rafa Jordà (born 1984), Spanish footballer * Rafa Luz (born 1992), Spanish basketball player * Rafael Márquez (born 1979), Mexican footballer * Rafa Martínez (born 1982), Spanish basketball player * Rafa Mir (born 1997), Spanish footballer * Rafa Navarro (footballer, born 1994), Spanish footballer * Rafael Páez (born 1994), Spanish footballer * Rafa Pérez (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafa, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Rafa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska, within Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ..., in north-central Poland. It lies west of Dąbrowa Chełmińska, north-east of Bydgoszcz, and north-west of Toruń. References Villages in Bydgoszcz County {{Bydgoszcz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Rafa
The Battle of Rafa, also known as the Action of Rafah, fought on 9 January 1917, was the third and final battle to complete the recapture of the Sinai Peninsula by British forces during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the First World War. The Desert Column of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked an entrenched Ottoman Army garrison at El Magruntein to the south of Rafah, close to the frontier between the Sultanate of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, to the north and east of Sheikh Zowaiid. The attack marked the beginning of fighting in the Ottoman territory of Palestine. After the British Empire victories at the Battle of Romani in August 1916 and the Battle of Magdhaba in December, the Ottoman Army had been forced back to the southern edge of Palestine as the EEF pushed eastwards supported by extended lines of communication. This advance depended on the construction of a railway and a water pipeline. With the railway reaching El Arish on 4 January 1917, an attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael (given Name)
Raphael is a given name derived from the Hebrew language, Hebrew ''rāp̄ā'ēl'' (רָפָאֵל) meaning "God has healed". Raphael (archangel), Raphael is one of the archangels according to Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. The angel Raphael appears in the Book of Tobit, considered deuterocanonical by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and Apocrypha, apocryphal by Protestants. Popularized in Western Europe, the name can be spelled Raphael, Raphaël, Rafael, Raffael, Raffaello, Raffiel, Refoel, Raffaele, or Refael depending on the language. The name is attested as far back as c. 1350 BC, appearing in a letter of Pabi, Prince of Tel Lachish, Lachish in center Israel, to Pharaoh Akhenaton ("Now have I sent you Rapha-el."). Usage of the name in the Anglosphere has been primarily among Roman Catholics. English Puritans considered it sacrireligious to name a child for an angel. United States census records show that men with the name Rafael or Raphael lived primar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafaela (other)
Rafaela is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Rafaela may also refer to: Argentine entities * Atlético de Rafaela, a sports club based in the city of Rafaela * Autódromo Ciudad de Rafaela, a motor racing circuit in the city of Rafaela * Rafaela Aerodrome, an airport serving the city of Rafaela * Roman Catholic Diocese of Rafaela, a diocese in the city of Rafaela People Mononym * Rafaela (footballer) (Rafaela Andrade de Moraes; born 1981), Brazilian women's international footballer * María Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726–1746), daughter of King Philip V of Spain Given name * Rafaela Alburquerque (born 1947), Dominican lawyer and diplomat * Rafaela Aparicio (1906–1996), Spanish film and theatre actress * Rafaela Azevedo (born 2002), Portuguese swimmer * Rafaela Baroni (1935-2021), Venezuelan sculptor and poet * Rafaela Bezanilla (1797–1855), First Lady of Chile * Rafaela Chacón Nardi (1926–2001), Cuban poet and educator * Rafaela Crespín Rubio (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Air Forces Association
The Royal Air Forces Association, also known as RAF Association or RAFA, is a British registered charity. It provides care and support to serving and retired members of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth, and to their dependents. The organisation was formed in 1943, and has 504 branches in the UK, with a total membership of approximately 79,000 in the UK and abroad. It receives no funding from the UK Government and operates entirely on donations and subscription fees. Its "Wings Appeal" raises around £2 million annually. It provides five flying scholarships for members of the Air Training Corps and Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets, each year. It also runs a website where serving or ex-serving Air Force personnel can search for comrades. See also *The Royal British Legion (RBL) * SSAFA * RAF Benevolent Fund (RAFBF) *Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramanathan Academy Of Fine Arts
The Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts is a school of fine art and a division of the University of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. History The Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) was founded as a tribute to Sir P. Ramanathan. by his son-in-law, S. Natesan The academy was located at Maruthanarmadam near Chunnakam and its purpose was to promote the education of Tamil classical music and Bharata Natyam. RAFA was taken over by the University of Sri Lanka in December 1975 and placed under the Jaffna Campus' Faculty of Arts A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, sc .... RAFA was part of the faculty's Department of Fine Arts. The Jaffna Campus was elevated to university status on 1 January 1979 with the creation of the University of Jaffna. In 1992 RAFA was separated from the Depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah (other)
Rafah is a city in the Gaza Strip. Rafah may also refer to: Places * Rafah Camp, Rafah, Gaza, Palestine; a refugee camp located next to the eponymous city * Rafah Governorate, Gaza, Palestine; a governorate bordering Egypt whose capital is Rafah * Rafah Border Crossing, Gaza—Egypt; a border gate between Rafah, Sinai and Rafah, Gaza * Rafah, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt; a city on the border of Gaza * Islamic Emirate of Rafah (2009), a short-lived self-declared state in Gaza People * Rafah DiCostanzo (born 1962), Canadian politician * Rafah Nanjeba Torsa (born 1998), Bangladeshi actress See also * * Battle of Rafah (other) * Rafa (other) Rafa is a masculine given name. Rafa or RAFA may also refer to: Rafa * Rafa, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in central northeast Poland * Battle of Rafa, a First World War victory by the British Empire over the Ottoman Empire * Rafae ... * Raffa (other) {{dab, geo Disambiguation pages [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
