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Barca or Barce may refer to:
Geography
- Barca (ancient city) or Barce, a Greek city, later Roman and Byzantine, in North Africa, occupying the coastal area of modern Libya
- Marj, Libya, modern city on the site of ancient Barca
- Barca Plateau, comprising most of Cyrenaica
- Barca (parish), a freguesia in Maia, Portugal
- Košice-Barca, a city part of Košice, Slovakia
- Barca, Rimavská Sobota District, a village in southern Slovakia
- Bârca, a commune in Dolj County, Romania
- Barqa, Gaza
- Barca, Soria, a municipality in the province of Soria, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain
- A Barca, an abandoned hamlet in Galicia, Spain
- La Barca (municipality), Jalisco, Mexico
Surname
- Aija Barča (born 1949), Latvian pedagogue and politician
- Barcids or Barca family, a prominent family in ancient Carthage
- Hamilcar Barca (275–228 BC), general and statesman, father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal, and Mago
- Hannibal Barca (247 – c. 181 BC), military commander
- Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), military commander
- Mago Barca (243–203 BC), military commander
- Hasdrubal the Fair (c. 270 – 221 BC), military leader and politician, brother-in-law of Hamilcar
- Fabrizio Barca (born 1954), Italian politician
- Giovanni Battista Barca (1594–1650), Italian Baroque painter
- Mike Barca (born 1954), American soccer goalkeeper
- Peter W. Barca (born 1955), Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin
- Roxana Bârcă (born 1988), Romanian long-distance runner
- Teodor Bârcă (fl. 1894–1918), Bessarabian politician
- Teodosie Bârcă (fl. 1894–1918), Bessarabian politician
- Vasile Bârcă (1884–1949), Moldovan politician
Zoology
- Abantiades barcas, a moth of the Hepialidae family
- Barca bicolor, a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae
- Barce (bug), a genus of thread-legged bugs in the emesinae subfamily of the reduviidae
- Deloneura barca a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family
Other uses
- "Barça", a common nickname for FC Barcelona, a sports club in Barcelona, Spain with sections in many different sports, most notably association football
- Barca (board game), a strategy board game named after Hannibal Barca
- Barca-longa, a two or three-masted lugger used in the Mediterranean
- UB-Barça, a now-defunct Spanish basketball team once sponsored by FC Barcelona
See also
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