Barca or Barce may refer to:

Places

  • Barca (ancient city) or Barce, a Greek city in North Africa
  • Barce, Greater Poland Voivodeship, a village in Greater Poland
  • Barce, Nisko, a part of the Polish town of Nisko
  • La Barca (municipality), Jalisco, Mexico
  • Barqa, Gaza
  • Barca (parish), a parish of Portugal
  • Barca d'Alva, a village in Portugal
  • Barca d'Alva railway station, train station in Portugal
  • Bârca, a commune in Dolj County, Romania
  • Košice-Barca, a city part of Košice, Slovakia
  • Barca, Rimavská Sobota District, a village in southern Slovakia
  • Barca, Soria, a municipality in Soria, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain
  • A Barca, an abandoned hamlet in Galicia, Spain

Zoology

  • Barce (bug), a genus of thread-legged bugs in the family Reduviidae
  • Barca (butterfly), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae

Other uses

  • "Barça" or FC Barcelona, a sports club in Barcelona, Spain
  • UB-Barça, a now-defunct Spanish basketball team once sponsored by FC Barcelona
  • Barca (board game), a strategy board game
  • Barca-longa, a two or three-masted lugger used in the Mediterranean

People with the surname

  • 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
  • Aija Barča (born 1949), Latvian pedagogue and politician
  • 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

See also

  • Abantiades barcas, a moth of the family Hepialidae
  • Barco (disambiguation)
  • Barqa or Cyrenaica
  • Burka (disambiguation)
  • Marj, Libya, modern city on the site of ancient Barca