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Barka

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Barka

Region in northeast Libya, situated on a plateau surrounding the ancient city of Barca (one of the cities of Cyrenaica), approximately 100 km/60 mi northeast of Benghazi.


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Peter JB, Boyle M, Patnaik M, Hadfield TL, Barka NE, Schwartzman WA, et al.
It also called for the pursuit of many unresolved cases, such as the 1965 disappearance of opposition leader Mehdi ben Barka and violations against activists from the Rif Mountains and the Sahara.
The local inhabitants are the Barkinji or river people, who believe that the great Darling River was created by Barka, a mythical ancestral serpent, as it undulated across the land.
 
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