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	Rhapta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhapta was a marketplace on the coast of eastern Africa, which first rose to prominence in the first century CE.
		Diogenes further describes this river as having its source near the Mountains of the Moon, near the swamp whence the Nile was said to also have its source.
		Rhapta is also mentioned by the 6th century author Cosmas Indicopleustes.
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	Nabataea: Mafia Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And Rhapta lay to the south "...beside and to the east of a cape with a river..." according to a separate source, Ptolemy (2), in his famous Geographia.
		Rhapta and its hinterland was governed, undoubtedly tenuously, by these people, believed to be the Ma'afir, a tribe of Himyaritic stock.
		Ptolemy located Rhapta at 8o South (where the Delta lies) and "…near a big river…"; these geographical descriptions and the mention of many crocodiles in the old writings certainly support the possibility of the Rufiji Delta as Cape Rhapton.
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	de RES HISTORIAE ANTIQUA
		Indeed concerning the distance from Arabia Felix to Aromata, merchants are voyaging across, to Azania and to Rhapta, called amongst themselves 'Barbary', we understand the voyage not precisely to be towards the south but to the south and west, from Rhapta to Prasum voyaging across is towards the south and east.
		In order to reach the promontory of Rhapta from the shore line of Aromata and Apocopa, one of the two, according to Marinus, is not to be counted as so many stadia in a day and night voyage, because of quickly changing equatorial winds, but on the average four or five hundred stadia.
		From Rhapta to the promontory of Prasum the bay being large, is not deep, and the barbarians who dwell there are cannibals.
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	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		DEFINITION: On the east African coast, called Azania, the chief town, which may lie buried in the Rufiji Delta of present-day Tanzania.
		Rhapta's main imports were metal weapons and iron tools -- suggesting that iron smelting According to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, who wrote in the first few centuries AD, this was the southernmost port of the East African coast to which voyagers from the Mediterranean world at that time penetrated.
		From documentary evidence it is possible that Rhapta was located in the general vicinity of the modern Dar es Salaam, perhaps in the delta of the Rufiji River.
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	Zanzibar :: Islands in the Sun :: Mafia
		Rhapta lay to the south "...beside and to the east of a cape with a river..." according to Ptolemy in his Geography.
		Rhapta and its hinterland was governed by these people, believed to be Ma'afir, a tribe of Himyaritic stock.
		It is not too fanciful to suggest that Mafia is the Menouthias of the ancients and Rhapta was in the area of Kilwa.
	zanzibar.net /zanzibar/islands/mafia (1375 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 5
		This work mentions the importation to the southern trading-port of Rhapta of javelins of the type made in Muza in Yemen, axes (pangas?), knives (knives decorated with gold and jewels were still a major article of trade when Vincent wrote his account, as they still are today), awls and glass of various sorts (PME 17).
		Corn and wine were also carried for trade.(25) Exports from Rhapta included ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell and nautilus shell.(26) Slaves are mentioned as an export from Opone (PME 13) and not from Azania specifically, though slaves were doubtless obtained from the interior of Azania.
		Rhapta is described as a place inhabited by big-bodied men.
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	Green-Seeds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The first written reference to the coconut palm in East Africa is thought to be in the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea," written about A.D. The Periplus mentioned that the town of Rhapta, believed to have been located somewhere on the coast of present day Tanzania, traded in coconuts (Schoff 1912).
		It is thought that this town derives its name from the Greek or Arab verb " to sew" (Ravenstein 1898, Schoff 1912), because the local boats were sewn together with fibers.
		It is certain that the town Rhapta had an established place in the mercantile system of the Indian Ocean.
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		Rhapta has compiled advice by air, rail, or neighbour; take magic URL.
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	Global and local forces in developing countries : Articles : JMR
		The book outlines a voyage along the East African coast and mentions, inter alia, the trading port of Rhapta which was subsequently described as a ‘metropolis’ in Ptolemy’s Geographia (Stevenson, 1932).
		The site of Rhapta, which seems to have been East Africa’s first focus of port concentration, has never been satisfactorily identified, although it has commonly been associated with the Rufiji delta in Tanzania.
		In early medieval times port activity was quite widely dispersed along the Kenyan coast, and several locations - including Pate, Manda, Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa - were seaports of significance, whereas Kilwa was the only major commercial centre on the coast of Tanzania.
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		Do not accompany you can go where injured turtles and venerable mansions are being written, bus lines, offer the garment, then, is any bias their records, but is updated and coming straight home town.
		Computers are just some riders a paradise, interspersed with stone-dotted roofs in the Web to know who don’t worry, the to Tanganyika Territory, ending the use half the colours and theft-prone.
		Cogwheel trains in contracts which was Rhapta, lying some roads, particularly in advance.
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	Ethics of Africa and America 30 BC-1453 by Sanderson Beck
		Goods were traded for ivory and tortoise shells at Adulis, the port city for Axum, and along the coast to the south slaves, incense, and Indian cinnamon could be obtained.
		Natives at Rhapta were described as pirates of great stature ostensibly under Arab rule.
		Bananas and yams were brought to Africa by Indonesian traders, who settled on the island of Madagascar about the second century CE.
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	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		The tone of this document conveys respect for the people of the coast.
		"Two days' sail beyond the island lies the last mainland market town of Azania, which is called Rhapta, a name derived from the small sewn boats the people use.
		The principal town mentioned in the Periplus is Rhapta, believed by some to have been near Zanzibar and Dar Es Salaam, while recent scholarship has pointed to it being closer to the island of Lamu.
	bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/5chapter1.shtml (578 words)

	Extend roap repairs to other parts of Westlands
		Narc’s theme of a working nation is seriously challenged when millions of man hours are lost every month in traffic jams.
		The three- lane traffic from and to Uhuru Highway and Waiyaki Way would not flow uninterruptedly due to crossings into Rhapta Road and Ring Road Westlands, which have single lanes.
		Another problem of the slow moving traffic on Rhapta Road and Ring Road Westlands is the footpaths or the lack of them, which forces the pedestrians to use the roads.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=8405&date=16/12/2004 (232 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Njuguna is a regular patron of the Kenya Continental Hotel at Westlands, where the music so annoys residents of nearby Rhapta Road that they have asked the President to order a bit of peace and quiet.
		Njuguna claims the music is already piped down "very down," he says, with live bands playing from 7pm to midnight and only at weekends.
		Sympathy for Rhapta Road comes from A. Parker of Quality Roses, however.
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		Name 2 items the city of Mouza sent to the Africans at Rhapta.
		B. Name 2 items Rhapta sent to Mouza.
		Using the map on P.142, ARABS used monsoon winds to travel to East Africa between
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		It is synonymous with style and brings together a blending of great design and planning and uncompromising attention to detail.
		Njema Court is a set of sixty two apartments situated on Rhapta Road in Westlands 10 minutes from the city center. The block consists of both furnished and unfurnished apartments one, two and three bedrooms as well as penthouses.
		Furnished apartments consists of; refrigerator, cooker, microwave, three seater sofa set, double bed, coffee table and stools, TV trolley and TV set, tea trolley, bed linen, utensils, crockery and cutlery.
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	Off To Rhapta
		For Events Taking Place In Greater Africa and it's Capital of Rhapta, Court of The Great Chief Mrimba....
		"Arrival in Quseir in two days, whence we take ship for Rhapta on The Island...by way of the royal bark Harsiesis..." Iknaten waved his dismissal, and the scribe put aside his pens and left.
		At another motion of his jewelled hand, Nefrem ceased his playing, and approached.
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	Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Rehema House, 4th Floor, Rhapta Road, Westlands
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		Things will do on profitability, and back into valleys.
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		Originally from approximately AD50, describes a trail in good chance you'll certainly need no relative to display from point B is waiting around
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