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Raphia may refer to: * ''Raphia'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae * ''Raphia'' (plant), the genus of raffia palms *
Raphia (town) Rafah ( ar, رفح, Rafaḥ) is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate, located south of Gaza City. Rafah's population of 152,950 (2014) is overwhelmingly made up of former Palestini ...
, the Ancient Greek name for Rafah, a town in Gaza *
Battle of Raphia The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was fought on 22 June 217 BC near modern Rafah between the forces of Ptolemy IV Philopator, king and pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt and Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire during t ...
, a major confrontation between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. {{Disambig, genus