Barca (disambiguation)

Barca can refer to the following:

*Barca (Barqa), a Roman, later Byzantine city in North Africa, occupying the coastal area of what is modern Libya. It was part of the Exarchate of Africa and was conquered by the Arabs in 644 CE during the Islamic conquest of North Africa, originally as capital of a homonymous province of the Caliphate. When the Ottoman Turks conquered the region in 1521 they adopted the Arabic name Barka in Turkish, but not the city's status as capital; some sources Latinize the Arabic or Turkish name back to Barca.
*the surrounding "Barca plateau", comprising most of Cyrenaica, consists largely of strata of tertiary formation, falls in terraces down to the Aujila depression, and presents an unbroken rampart of steep cliffs towards
*a synonym of Barcas, a Carthaginian noble family including Hannibal and Hamilcar Barca.
*Barca is also the name of a freguesia in Maia, Portugal.
*Barca, Rimavská Sobota is a village in southern Slovakia.

*Barça is also another name for FC Barcelona, a sports club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain with sections in many different sports.