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Raritan

  (răr'ĭ-tən)

A river, about 129 km (80 mi) long, formed by the confluence of two tributaries in north-central New Jersey and flowing eastward to Raritan Bay, the western arm of Lower New York Bay, at Perth Amboy.

ˈræritn an Algonquian-speaking Indian tribe located in the mid-seventeenth century in the lower Hudson River Valley and in the vicinity of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island. Friction with the Dutch settlers in the area led to a series of bloody skirmishes between the Raritans and the Dutch between 1640 and 1664.

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Raritan may refer to:

• Raritan (tribe), a tribe of Lenape Indians
• Raritan, New Jersey, a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey
• Raritan Township, New Jersey, a township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
• Raritan Computer, Inc., a supplier of KVM Switches and IT infrastructure management solutions, in Somerset, New Jersey
• Raritan Bay, a bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey
• Raritan River, a tributary of Raritan Bay in New Jersey
• Raritan High School, the public high school in Hazlet, New Jersey
• Raritan Quarterly Review, a journal of Rutgers University

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