Rhodes (disambiguation)

Rhodes (disambiguation)

"Rhodes" may refer to:

* any one of several place names:
** Rhodes, the Greek Dodecanese island where the Colossus of Rhodes stood
** Rhodes, Greece, the main settlement on the island of Rhodes
** Rhodes, New South Wales, Australia
** Rhodes, Iowa, United States of America
** Rhodes, Eastern Cape, a small tourist town in South Africa
** Rhode Island, United States of America
** Rhodes, Moselle a commune of the Moselle "département", in France
** Rhodes, an area of Middleton, Greater Manchester, England

* any one of several institutions of higher education:
** Rhodes College, a college in Memphis, Tennessee
** Rhodes State College, a college in Lima, Ohio
** Rhodes University, a college in Grahamstown, South Africa

* any one of a number of persons:
** Rhodes (surname)

* other uses
** Rhodes Brothers, a department store in Tacoma, WA
** Rhodes Scholarship
** Rhodes Singers, concert choir of Rhodes College in Memphis, TN
** The Rhodes piano
** Rhodes Preparatory School formerly in Manhattan, New York
** Rhodes Trail Run
** Rhodes (grape), a synonym for the Athiri grape which is used to make Retsina on the Island of Rhodes
** Rhoditis, a pink-skinned Greek wine grape often blended into Retsina


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