Sarafand or Sarafend may refer to:
Places
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Sarafand, Lebanon
Sarafand ( ar, الصرفند) is a village in southern Lebanon located 10 km south of Sidon overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Its name conserves that of the Phoenician site of Sarepta, just north of Sarafand.
History
In 1875 Victor Guér ...
, also spelled Sarafend
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Sarepta
Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titula ...
, an ancient Phoenician city at the location of the modern Lebanese town
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Tzrifin
Tzrifin ( he, צְרִיפִין) is an area in Gush Dan (Dan Region) in central Israel, located on the eastern side of Rishon LeZion and including parts of Be'er Ya'akov. The area proper is defined as an 'area without jurisdiction' between the t ...
, area in central Israel previously known as "Sarafand" or "Sarafend", which used to contain two namesake Palestinian villages:
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Sarafand al-Amar
Sarafand al-Amar ( ar, صرفند العمار) was a Palestinian Arab village situated on the coastal plain of Palestine, about northwest of Ramla. It had a population of 1,950 in 1945 and a land area of 13,267 dunams. It was depopulated dur ...
, 1920s–1940s site of Sarafand/Sarafend, the largest British military base in the Middle East
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Sarafand al-Kharab
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Al-Sarafand
Al-Sarafand ( ar, الصرفند) was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population sur ...
, a Palestinian village near Haifa
Other uses
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Short Sarafand
The Short S.14 Sarafand was a British biplane flying boat built by Short Brothers. It was planned as a general reconnaissance aircraft for military service. When it was built in 1932 it was the largest aeroplane in the United Kingdom.
The Sara ...
, a British 1930s biplane flying boat
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West Nile virus
West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever. It is a member of the family ''Flaviviridae'', from the genus ''Flavivirus'', which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus ...
: the Sarafend strain, one of its deadly strains
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