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Rabat (الرباط)

Rabat (الرباط), Morocco's capital on the Atlantic at the Bou Regreg mouth: 515,619 city residents (2024 census), UNESCO World Heritage site since 2012, and World Book Capital for 2026.

Rabat Beach Culture (RBC) is a surf and ocean-sports club founded in 2004 at Oudaya Beach, Rabat, Morocco, at the Bouregreg river mouth, offering surf coaching, open-water swimming, paddle tours, and youth programs for ages 6–18.

Rabat Club N ° 5

Rabat Club n°5 is a surf school and surfing spot on the Atlantic beach at the Kasbah des Oudayas in Rabat, Morocco, near Place du Sémaphore, alongside Rabat Club n°4, Rabat surf therapy, and the Royal Moroccan Surfing Federation.

Sep 19, 2026

Rabat Tepe

Rabat Tepe, also known as Rabat-i Tepe, is an Iron Age archaeological mound complex near Sardasht in northwestern Iran, dated to the 8th and 7th centuries BC.

Rabat Zoo

Rabat Zoo (Jardin Zoologique de Rabat) is Morocco's national zoo in Rabat, opened 14 January 2012, holding about 2,000 animals of 190 species across five biozones, run by the state-owned Jardin Zoologique National S.A with Atlas lion, Saharan antelope, and bald ibis conservation programs.

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (الرباط-سلا-القنيطرة), one of Morocco's 12 regions, formed in 2015; area 17,570 km², population 5,132,639 (2024), 15.7% of national GDP, contains capital Rabat.

Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage

Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage (UNESCO site 1401) covers Morocco's capital, pairing the 1912-1930s French Protectorate Ville Nouvelle with 12th-century Almohad monuments such as the Hassan Mosque, inscribed 2012 under criteria (ii) and (iv).

Sep 23, 2026

Rabatak inscription

The Rabatak inscription (रबाटक लेख) is a Bactrian-language inscription of the Kushan emperor Kanishka I, recording a temple foundation and the start of a new era.

Rabati Malik

Rabati Malik (Rabat-i Malik, "Royal Fortress") is a ruined 1070s Karakhanid royal steppe residence and later Silk Road caravanserai near Navoi, Uzbekistan, between Samarkand and Bukhara; its portal survives, and it joined UNESCO's Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor listing in 2023.

Rabaul

Rabaul: town and active volcanic caldera on New Britain, Papua New Guinea; twin Tavurvur and Vulcan eruptions in 1937 (500+ deaths) and 1994 destroyed half the town; last eruption 2014.

Rabavert

RabAvert, sold abroad as Rabipur, is a purified chick embryo cell rabies vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic, licensed in the United States in 1997 for pre- and post-exposure vaccination.

Oct 22, 2026

Rabban Bar Sauma

Rabban Bar Sauma was a Church of the East monk born in Beijing who traveled to Europe in 1287–1288 as ambassador of the Mongol Ilkhan Arghun of Persia.

Oct 22, 2026

Rabbe Enckell

Rabbe Enckell (1903–1974) was a Finland-Swedish poet, critic, and painter, a founder of Finland-Swedish modernism who debuted in 1923 with Dikter and wrote about thirty poetry collections.

Sep 19, 2026

Rabbel I

Rabbel I, also printed Rabel I or ar-Rabil I, was a poorly attested king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 90–87 BC, between Obodas I and Aretas III.

Sep 19, 2026

Rabbel II

Rabbel II Soter was the last king of the Nabataeans, reigning from 70 to 106 CE; after his death, Trajan annexed the kingdom as the Roman province of Arabia.

Rabbi (רַבִּי)

Rabbi (רַבִּי, Hebrew for "my master" or "my teacher") is the title of a person qualified by study of the Hebrew Bible and Talmud to lead a Jewish community.

Rabbi Akiva

Rabbi Akiva, also known as Akiva ben Yosef (c. 50–135 CE), was a Palestinian tanna, probably the foremost scholar of his age, executed by the Romans.

Rabbi Levi (lunar crater)

Rabbi Levi, an IAU-approved 82.44 km impact crater on the Moon's southern highlands at 34.78S 23.46E, named for Rabbi Levi ben Gerson (Ralbag); neighbors Zagut and Lindenau, satellite crater Rabbi Levi Q.

Rabbi Matondo

Rabbi Matondo (born 2000) is a Welsh winger from Liverpool, ex-Cardiff and Manchester City academy, who played for Schalke 04, Rangers, SK Brann, and now Hibernian, with 11 Wales caps.

Rabbids Invasion

Rabbids Invasion (Les Lapins Crétins : Invasion) is a French CGI animated series (2013–2019) by Ubisoft Film and Television with France Télévisions and Nickelodeon, based on the Raving Rabbids games; four seasons, season 4 on Netflix, plus the 2022 Mission to Mars special.

Rabbinic Judaism (יהדות רבנית)

Rabbinic Judaism (יהדות רבנית), also called Talmudic Judaism, is the mainstream form of Judaism holding that Moses received both a written and an oral Torah at Sinai.

Rabbinic period

Rabbinic period (c. 70–500 CE): era from the Second Temple's destruction in which rabbis created the Mishnah, Tosefta, midrash, and the two Talmuds, teaching a dual written and Oral Torah; rabbinic authority spread only gradually.

Rabbit

Rabbit: lagomorph mammal (Leporidae), not a rodent; European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus is ancestor of all domestic rabbits, a hindgut-fermenting caecotroph, domesticated in France (AD 600 date contested), and a major invasive pest in Australia.

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also called viral hemorrhagic disease or rabbit calicivirus disease, is a highly contagious fatal lagovirus hepatitis of rabbits and hares, mortality up to 90 percent, first recorded China 1984, RHDV2 variant since 2010, WOAH-listed, no human risk.

Rabbit hole

Rabbit hole: the burrow of the European rabbit, and the interconnected warren system it forms; also the figurative sense of an immersive browsing or inquiry chain, as studied on Wikipedia and YouTube.

Oct 3, 2026

Rabbit Hole (2010 film)

Rabbit Hole (2010) is a drama directed by John Cameron Mitchell, adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 play, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as parents grieving their son's death; Kidman earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination.