Qara
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Qara; قارة
Town in the Qalamun mountains, Syria, ca. 95 km. northeast of Damascus and less than 20 km. north of Nabk (see Dayr Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashī), often mentioned as a caravan station between Ḥimṣ and Damascus.
439. Qara
location: 34.16826385 36.75343335
event: 1224/1228
Attestation of name قارة in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
state: 0300–2013
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/161
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668221
identifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarah,_Syria
identifier: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Qarah,_Syria
identifier: http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=Q&sK=Qara&sT=keywords
L. Van Rompay 439. Qara The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 342-343
The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 40, 286, 342–343 (with fig. 101, 102), 425 Map II A2, V
The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Qara
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668221
Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī IV:334