Start your family tree now Is your surname Rapa?
There are already 839 genealogy profiles with the Rapa surname on Geni. Join now to find your relatives.

Rapa Genealogy and Rapa Family History Information

‹ Back to Surnames Index

Create your Family Tree.
Discover your Family History.

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!
view all

Profiles

  • Avraham Menahem HaCohen Rapaport (1520 - 1593)
    PORTO (Rafa-Rapaport), ABRAHAM MENAHEM BEN JACOB HA-KOHEN (1520–after 1594), one of the important rabbis of Verona. In his youth he studied in Venice where he became acquainted with Elijah *Levita and ...
  • Lana Leonora DelBanco (1580 - 1651)
    מגלות היוחסין של משפחות יהודיות הונגריות- כרך ראשון עורך- מונקאטשי pg. 153"Die Inschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien" by Dr. Bernhard Wachstein.- Band I - No. 387
  • Moses Cohen-Rapa (deceased)
    Die Inschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien by dr. Bernhard Wachstein- I Teil -no. 8 page 7
  • Harav Hagaon Simcha Cohen Rapa (1555 - 1635)
    מח"ס:"קול שמחה,"ספר שירים ליום השבת על סדר א"ב" על ספריו חתם בשם:שמחה ב"ר גרשון הכהן איש רפאפורטי Die Inschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien by dr. Bernhard Wachstein- I Teil -no....
  • Rabbi Yechiel HaKohen Rapa, of Venice (bef.1485 - c.1550)
    NOTE: This is the same person as: Moses Cohen-Rapa ; but they could actually be two different people, with the present profile being the grandfather of the other one.

About the Rapa surname

Islands in the Pcific Ocean called Rapa,that are Rapa-Nui and Rapa-Iti ,may well be
named after Agha-Rapa ,one of the sons of Ak-Haya-Ra ,son of Kel-Laya-Bawa from
the tribe of A-Wa-Hayad-Daha ,one of the ten brothers from whom the Chosen People ,
the native Americans are descended .

Kel-Laya-Bawa ,after whom Bolivia in the Holy Land might be named ,is the generic ancestors
of the peoples qualified,after a particular tribe of them,as Arawakan or Maipurean ,
while his son Ak-Haya-Ra might well be mentioned in Greeek mythology,a compilation of
stories of the Indian tribes exiled into Europe ,as Héraklés of Libya ,
whereat Héraklés comes from Haya-wa-Ra-Ak-Kel and Libya does from Laya-Bawa .

He had at least three sons : 1 Shalam-Ma'a ,father of Bawa-Te-Lak-Ham ,ancestor of the Tambo tribes,
now called Campa for soem reason,2,Sha-ya-Ba-La,father of A-War-Ger-Rawam-Ma ,that of the
Mad-Tsiganga ,because this name is equal to Maur-Roma ,and 3, Agha-Para ,whose descendants
may be indetifyed with the also closely related Piro in the Peruvian Andean regions .

The aforesaid Ag-Ha-Ra-Pa might have founded and given name to the city of Harappa
( Ha-Ra-Ag-Pa ) ,the center of the civilization in the Ind Valley ,using an art of script almost identical
with that of Rapa-Nui ,yet in the time Indians lived in te Asian India ,called In the Byble Mesta-Rawa-Ma ,
the Roma place .
He is the father of the house of Get-Dera .later called Gedrótia ,in what is now approximately Balochistan .
Although his descendants must have left India at the Exodus ,some of them ,as it is written ,
have later returned on the way God said of : you shall never take that path again .
Braghui people in Belujistan may be named also after Agha-Ra-Pa .as Para-Aghawi ,
and so may probably some people in Africa called Paraghuyu .

Others at the occasions of attacks on the Holy Land of America might have chased away to
and settled in Europe ,and seeem to have founded Prag / Praha ,the capital of the Czech ( Cheh )
country i it ,named also after Agha-Ra-Pa ,the Piro ancestor .
Piros are alternatively called Simirinche ,that may be interpreted as Si-Mir-Ind-Cheh ,and thus
refer to both of the related tribes in Asia and Europe respectively ,to the Mir Siind of Balochistan,
that is to say : Comander of India ,and to the Cheh in Boiohaemia .

The Libyan Héraklés had according to the Helléns a son called Makéris ( Maka-ya-Wari ) ,
father of Sardón ,from whom the Maka people in Balochistan ,and perhaps also in the Huari kingdom,
and around Macas in Ecuador may be descended .
He must thus be one of the three sons mentioned above .
His descendant was also Aba-Chele-'Ala ,after whom Chelyabinsk in Bashkiria may be named,
and A'ayar-Rawa ,the ancestor of Iron Alans of the region .

Simirinche thus is equal with Cheh,Mir-Sind ,and are the descendants of Agha-Ra-Pa ,
founder first of Harappa,then,at the Exodus of Rapa in the Ocean ,and then the country of the Piro
in the Andes ,and finally in places in the exiles ,called after him Prague and Braghui .

See Prager,Prazák,Tampa,Campa,Michigan,Saliba,Sibalin,Bolivia,Argentina,Argentino,Paraguay,Sardo,
Silberstein,Iron,Irani,Kypriotis,Kyprianou,Pakarati,Tepano,Makedon,Szerencsi,Szerencse,Szerencsy,
Encsi,Göncz,Gönci,Jurák,Dogaru,Nolepa,Napoli and others !

Balázs Déri