Rabia

Rabia is the transliteration to mainly two different Arabic words written differently in Arabic text and properly transliterated differently:

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Rabia, Iraq

Rabia (ربيعة) is Iraqi city near the border crossing between Iraq and Syria located opposite to the Syrian city of Al-Yarubiyah. Both cities are inhabited by the Shammar Arab tribe. Rabia is located on the road between Al-Shadadi, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. The border crossing was redesigned during the Iraq troop surge operation in 2008 and subsequently attacked by an individual wearing a suicide vest. The explosion destroyed a building used for processing personnel through the crossing point, damaged several other buildings, and caused several casualties, including a civilian contractor working for the U.S. military forces there. During the Syrian civil war (October, 2014) Western newspapermen reported on fighting at Rabia between jihadists and Kurdish Peshmerga.

The city's primary economic sector is illegal smuggling, though there are legitimate freight and human migration between Syria and Iraq. Migrants are scanned using retina scanning technology.

In August 2003, Syria inaugurated the Rabia railway station. It was announced that there would be two goods' trains a week, with a passenger service to follow. As of October 2009, the passenger train was arriving at the Rabiyah station on Wednesday afternoons in the direction of Damascus and on Saturday mornings in the direction of Mosul. The standard gauge railway line from Rabia, part of the Baghdad Railway, is linked to Baghdad via Mosul. The town has been under Kurdish control since June 2014.

Rabi`ah

Rabi`ah ibn Nizar (Arabic: ربيعة‎) is the patriarch of one of two main branches of the "North Arabian" (Adnanite) tribes, the other branch being founded by Mudhar.

Branches

According to the classical Arab genealogists, the following are the important branches of Rabi`ah:

Location

Like the rest of the Adnanite Arabs, legend has it that Rabi`ah's original homelands were in the Tihamah region of western Arabia, from which Rabi`ah migrated northwards and eastwards. Abd al-Qays were one of the inhabitants of the region of Eastern Arabia, including the modern-day islands of Bahrain, and were mostly sedentary.

Bakr's lands stretched from al-Yamama (the region around modern-day Riyadh) to northwestern Mesopotamia. The main body of the tribe was bedouin, but a powerful and autonomous sedentary sub-tribe of Bakr also resided in al-Yamama, the Bani Hanifa.

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