Qara may refer to:
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Al Qara
Al Qara ( ar, القرى) is one of the governorates in Al Bahah Region, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land ar ...
, a governorate in Al Bahah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Qara, Syria
Qara or Kara ( ar, قارة) 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 o ...
, a Syrian city
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Qara Oasis
The Qara Oasis (also spelt Cara or Gara; ar, واحة القارة; also Qarat Umm El Sagheir, i.e. ) is an inhabited oasis in Egypt, with a population of only 363 (as of the 11 November 2006 census). This oasis is often disregarded when it come ...
, Egypt
Persons
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Qara Iskander
Qara Iskandar ( az, قارا اسکندر, italic=no; ) ruled the Qara Qoyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420 to 1436. His struggles with the 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
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Qara Mahammad
Qara Mahammad Töremish ( Azerbaijani: قارا محمد) was a bey of Kara Koyunlu 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 M ...
Töremish, bey of Kara Koyunlu and father of Qara Yusuf
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Qara Osman
Uthman Beg or Osman Beg ( az, Qara Yuluq Osman Bəy; tr, Kara Yülük Osman Bey; 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 Ira ...
(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
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Qara Shemsi Abdal
Qara Shemsi Abdal ( ota, قارا شمسی عبدال; 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 e ...
, a 19th-century Ottoman poet
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Qara Yusuf
''Abu Nasr'' Qara Yusuf ibn Mohammad Barani ( az, Qara Yusif ; c. 1356 – 1420) was the ruler of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (or "Black Sheep Turkomans") from c.1388 to 1420, although his reign was interrupted by Tamerlane's invasion (1400–1405) ...
(c. 1356 – 1420), ruler of the Kara Koyunlu dynasty or Black Sheep Turkomans from c.1388 to 1420
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Qara Khitai
The Qara Khitai, or Kara Khitai (), also known as the Western Liao (), officially the Great Liao (), was a Sinicized dynastic regime based in Central Asia ruled by the Khitan Yelü clan. The Qara Khitai is considered by historians to be an ...
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Ghara
Ghara is an earthen pot made in India and Pakistan. It is used for storing drinking water and keeping it cool.
The word ''ghara'' has cognates in Pahari, Bengali and Odia languages that can all be traced to the Sanskrit word ''ghaṭa'' meaning ...
, disambiguation
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