Barka
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Barka (Arabic: ) is a coastal town in the region Al Bāţinah, in northern Oman. It is located at about . The town is emerging as a tourist resort. It has an interesting fort.
Both in Arabic and in Turkish, Barka was also 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 after several Arabo-Barbaresque rulers, as an Ottoman province since 1521
Source
- Westermann, Großer Atlass zur Weltgeschichte (in German)
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