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Al Qara Al-Qura () is a governorate in Al-Baha Province of Saudi Arabia. It is one of the administrative divisions of the province and includes several towns and villages. Sport club * Al-Ain FC (); previously known as "Zahran FC" and "Al-Ameed". See ...

, a governorate in Al Bahah Region, Saudi Arabia *

Qara, Syria Qara or Kara () is a Syrian city in the An-Nabek District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. It is located between the Qalamoun Mountains and the Eastern Lebanon mountains range, north of the capital Damascus on the road to the city of Homs. Acco ...

, a Syrian city *

Qara Oasis The Qara Oasis (also spelt Cara or Gara; ; also Qarat Umm El Sagheir, i.e. ) is an inhabited oasis in Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and W ...

, Egypt

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Qara Iskander Qara Iskandar (; ) ruled the Qara Qoyunlu or Black Sheep Turkoman (ethnonym), Turcoman tribe from 1420 to 1436. His struggles with the Timurid dynasty, Timurid ruler Shah Rukh show that he was a brave leader, but he was not able to continue develo ...

, ruled the Kara Koyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420 to 1436 *

Qara Mahammad Qara Mahammad Yiwa was a bey of the Qara Qoyunlu and father of Qara Yusuf. Life Mahammad was a nephew of Bayram Khwaja and one of his main supporters. He served Jalayirid sultan Uways and suppressed Khwaja Marjan's rebellion (governor of ...

Töremish, bey of Kara Koyunlu and father of Qara Yusuf *

Qara Osman Uthman Beg or Osman Beg (Ajami Turkic and ; 1356 – 1435) was a late 14th and early 15th-century leader of the Turkoman tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq. Name He was born Baha-ud-Din Uth ...

(reigned 1378–1435), late 14th and early 15th-century leader of the Turkoman tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq *

Qara Shemsi Abdal Qara Shemsi Abdal (; born 1828 – died 22 September 1886), was a Turkish poet of the Ottoman era. He wrote in Turkish and Persian. Abdal was born in Konya into a poor family, and did not receive institutional education. He became a member of t ...

, a 19th-century Ottoman poet *

Qara Yusuf ''Abu Nasr'' Qara Yusuf ibn Mohammad Barani ( 1356 – 1420) was the ruler of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (or "Black Sheep Turkomans") from 1388 to 1420, although his reign was interrupted by Tamerlane's invasion (1400–1405). He was the son of ...

(c. 1356 – 1420), ruler of the Kara Koyunlu dynasty or Black Sheep Turkomans from c.1388 to 1420

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