Barka Explained

Barka, Barca or Barqa or Barkah may refer to:

Places

Barca (ancient city), in eastern Libya
Barka (Eritrea), a former province of Eritrea
Barka, Divača, a village in Slovenia
Barka, Oman, 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, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948
Cyrenaica, a region comprising most of eastern Libya, "Barqa" in Arabic
El Barka, a village in Tamanrasset Province, Algeria

Rivers

Barka River, a river in Eritrea and Sudan
Darling River, Australia, known as Barka or Baaka in the local Paakantyi language

People

Barca or Barcas, the cognomen of a Carthaginian dynasty, see Barcid
Barka Vasyl (1908–2003), Ukrainian writer
Mehdi Ben Barka (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

See also