Barka, Barca or Barqa or Barkah may refer to:

Places

Barca (ancient city) Barca (Latin), also known as Barke (, ''Bárkē''), Barka, Barqa, Barqah (, ), and Barce (Latin and Italian) was an ancient, medieval, and early modern city located at the site of Marj in northeastern Libya. It remains a Catholic and Orthodox ...

, in eastern Libya *

Barka (Eritrea) The provinces of Eritrea existed since pre-Axumite times and became administrative provinces from Eritrea's incorporation as a colony of Italy until the conversion of the provinces into administrative regions. Many of the provinces had their own lo ...

, a former province of Eritrea *

Barka, Divača Barka (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Divača in the Littoral region of Slovenia. The local church is dedicated to Saint Cantianius and belongs to the Parish of Vatovlje Vatovlje (; ) is a small village in the Municipality of Divača in ...

, a village in Slovenia *

Barka, Oman Barka () is a coastal city and ''Wilayah'' (Provinces of Oman, Province) in the region Al Batinah Region, Al Bāţinah, in northern Oman. Bordered by the Gulf of Oman, Sea of Oman and the Hajar Mountains in southern Batinah, Barka is about a half- ...

, a town in Oman * Barka, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a settlement in northern Poland * Barka, Saudi Arabia, a village in Saudi Arabia * Barkah, Afghanistan, a village in north-eastern Afghanistan * Barkah, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Barqa, Gaza Barqa () was a Palestinian Arab village located 37 km north of Gaza near the modern-day Israeli city of Ashdod. It was referred to as ''Barka'' by the Greeks and ''Bareca'' by the Romans during their rule over the ancient Philistine city. ...

, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948 *

Cyrenaica Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika (, , after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between the 16th and 25th meridians east, including the Kufra District. The coastal region, als ...

, a region comprising most of eastern Libya, "Barqa" in Arabic *

El Barka El Barka is a village in the commune of In Salah, in In Salah District, Tamanrasset Province, Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered t ...

, a village in Tamanrasset Province, Algeria

Rivers

Barka River The Barka River (Arabic: ''nahr Baraka''; Italian: ''fiume Barca'') is a tributary river that flows from the Eritrean Highlands to the plains of Sudan. With a length of over 640 km, it rises just outside Asmara and flows in a northwestern di ...

, a river in Eritrea and Sudan *

Darling River The Darling River (or River Darling; Paakantyi: ''Baaka'' or ''Barka''), is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth. Including its long ...

, Australia, known as Barka or Baaka in the local Paakantyi language

People

* ''Barca'' or ''Barcas'', the cognomen of a Carthaginian dynasty, see

Barcid The Barcid () family was a notable Punic ( Phoenician) family in the ancient city of Carthage; many of its members were fierce enemies of the Roman Republic. "Barcid" is an adjectival form coined by historians (''cf.'' " Ramesside" and "Abbasid" ...

* Barka Vasyl (1908–2003), Ukrainian writer *

Mehdi Ben Barka Mehdi Ben Barka (; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist, politician, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinenta ...

(1920–1965), Moroccan politician

Other uses

* " Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore", 1974 Spanish religious song, in Polish "Barka" * Barça, nickname of Spanish association football club

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

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