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Barca or Barce may refer to: Places *Barca (ancient city) or Barce, a Greek city in North Africa *La Barca (municipality), Jalisco, Mexico *Barqa, Gaza *Barca (parish), a List of parishes of Portugal: M, parish of Portugal *Bârca, a commune in Dolj County, Romania *Košice-Barca, a city part of Košice, Slovakia *Barca, Rimavská Sobota District, a village in southern Slovakia *Barca, Soria, a municipality in Soria, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain *A Barca, an abandoned hamlet in Galicia, Spain Zoology *Barce (bug), ''Barce'' (bug), a genus of thread-legged bugs in the subfamily Emesinae of the family Reduviidae *''Barca bicolor'', a monotypic species in a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae *''Deloneura barca'' a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae Other uses *"Barça" or FC Barcelona, a sports club in Barcelona, Spain **UB-Barça, a now-defunct Spanish basketball team once sponsored by FC Barcelona *Barca (board game), ''Barca'' (board game), ...
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Barca (ancient City)
Barca ( ar, برقة, ''Barqa''; Berber: ''Berqa''), also called Barce ( grc-gre, Βάρκη, ''Bárkē''), was an ancient city and former bishopric, which survives as both a Latin Catholic and an Orthodox titular see. History Antiquity Barca appears to be originally a settlement of the Libyan tribe Barraci. Later, around 560 BC Greek settlers from Cyrene colonized it and it became very powerful. Its name was Barce (Βάρκη). Later it was taken by the Persians, who moved most of its inhabitants to Bactria. Then became a Roman and a Byzantine. It was in the coastal area of what is today Libya. As a Greek city, it was part of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis along with the city of Cyrene itself. Achaemenid king Darius I established Barcaean captives in a village in Bactria, which was still flourishing in Herodotus' time. According to most archeologists, it was situated at Marj, approximately 100 kilometers northeast of Benghazi, but according to Alexander Graham it was at Tolme ...
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