Barqah

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This article is about the Arabic name used to refer to the region of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya during its Islamic, Ottoman or subsequent eras. For the same region or its capital during Ancient Greek and Roman times, see Barca.


Barqah (Arabic: برقه, transliterated as Barqah, Barqa or Barka with the first two variants being more accurate than the last, Libyan vernacular: Barga), in both Arabic and in Turkish, Barqah is the name of the North African region, now eastern Libya, usually called Cyrenaica first as a province of the Caliphate since 644 AD (named after its original capital Barca in Latin), and later after several Arab and Islamic rulers, as a State or Province ("wilayah" or "muhafazah") in Ottoman; Italian colonization and Libyan post-independence times (roughly from 1521 until as recently as the early 1970s when the province-system was abolished in Libya). More details on what Barqah means in Islamic, Ottoman or subsequent contexts can be found in the article Cyrenaica, and more on what it means specifically in Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek contexts can be found in the article Barca.

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  • Westermann, Großer Atlass zur Weltgeschichte (in German).

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