
Town of Rafah, a town in North Sinai Governorate, an ancient city on the border between Egypt and Palestine territory, and away from the city of Arish about 35 miles away, separated now occupied Palestine barbed wire.
The purest ancient city of “Rafia” Raphei, has said of “Yousefios” as the first stop Syria rested the “Titus” on his way to besiege Jerusalem in (70 BC). It was also the most historical times the boundary between Egypt and Syria, and has won by “Ptolemy IV,” the king of Egypt: “Antiochus the great” King of Syria, in reality been a huge year (217 BC)., as victorious, “Sargon,” the king of Assyria on the “proactive” King of Egypt in the early eighth century BC (1).
And Rafah, “said historian Almhellbi (575 births - in 1179):” Rafah: a city filled with, the market and a mosque and a platform, hotels, and Rafah to Gaza sycamore echeloned on both sides of the road, on the right and left about a thousand tree-related branches together march two miles, and there is uninterrupted sand Alajafar , and is traveling in the skin, and was opened in open cities in the Levant at the hands of “Amr ibn al-Aas” in succession, “Umar ibn al-Khattab” and have stated in the news crusade.
Features of the old town of Rafah
Remember ancient monuments and there are some famous landmarks such as the city of Rafah: Rafah, well, well Rafiah, border pillar and dams, the tomb of Sheikh Suleiman Alrfaihy, Hrabp Rafah, and others, and let us sort it:
Well, Rafah:
It is also mentioned - Noam Choucair - Beer outdated folded carved stone radius of about ten feet and depth of about ten fathoms, discharged copious fit for drinking, but diagonally to the salinity and the suspended small, and the well may be filled in Vtehrha people of Khan Younis in nearly 30 years, and cultivated the land the neighboring barley, and they have made the well two Mayors of Rafah, the old narrow mouth and reduce the risk of falling, and may have entered this well within the limits of the State attic, and the well Rafah and the Mediterranean Sea dunes great sand watered with sea winds, including to agricultural land Vtbtalha gradually, and their parents for Aibdon less traffic to stop when alone, and the intervening dune ruins of old buildings and broken pottery and glass, which indicates that it extends to its development on the Mediterranean coast.
Well Rafiah
Which, as books say the historians of the Arab Kalmgarizy and Almsaudy Yacoubi and Humthan and Sapphire Hamwi: it well recent Ahtafrtha tribe Rumailat in the middle of the dunes and on about two miles to the southwest of Bir Rafah, when the demarcation of the border between the attic and between the Government of Britain then and the Egyptian government was entered in the borders of Egypt, and has restored it after the English governor of the Sinai in 1907.
Column border and Sidra
Located Sedra Rafah near the well of Rafah on about 360 miles, to the side watching the seer two columns of black granite and the length of each about seven feet in diameter up to three feet, one to the point of the Levant (Palestine) and the other overlooking the hand of Egypt, has kuna from the out of Sidra triangle equilateral length of each side about five meters, when it signed the border incident in 1906 removed the soldiers Turks columns of the whereabouts and Tmroheme in the sand and broke one of them breaks, and when the arrival of the mission of the Egyptian government to set the border kept this limit, and erected in place columns mentioned two other column Azantien old Rafah, one full and the other a piece of a column, the Ottoman authorities Binmanglt the rest of the column to the Istana is located - as they say - until now at the Museum of Istanbul.