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Barca
Ancient Greek: Βάρκη Arabic: برقة
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Alternative name	Latin: Antaeopolis
Location	Libya
Region	Marj District
Coordinates	32°29′54″N 20°53′34″E / 32.498333°N 20.892778°E

Barca (Latin), also known as Barke (Ancient Greek: Βάρκη, Bárkē), Barka, Barqa, Barqah (Arabic: برقة, Barqa), and Barce (Latin & Italian) was an ancient, medieval, and early modern city located at the site of Marj in northeastern Libya. It remains a Roman Catholic and Orthodox titular see.

History

Ancient Barca

Barca was situated at the site of the old town of Marj, approximately 100 kilometers (60 mi) northeast of Benghazi.^[2] No remains of the ancient settlement are visible at Marj, but some of the finds made there during the Italian colonial dominance of Libya (1913–41) are on display in the museum at Tolmeita.

Barca appears to be originally a settlement of the Libyan tribe Barraci. Later, Greek settlers from Cyrene colonized it. Archaeological evidence shows that Greek presence at Barca dates back to the seventh century BC.^[3] The city became a major economic centre due to its agricultural wealth.^[2] Herodotus places the foundation of the city around 560 BC, when the brothers of king Arcesilaus II of Cyrene quarrelled with him and left Cyrene to found Barca. The Barcans and Libyans defeated Arcesilaus II at the Battle of Leuco and killed him around 550 BC.^[4] Before 515 BC, Arcesilaus III of Cyrene was driven into exile and came to Barca, where he was assassinated. As a result, his mother Pheretime called on the Achaemenid governor of Egypt, Aryandes, for help. He besieged and sacked Barca in 515 BC.^[5]^[6] The Achaemenid king, Darius I, settled some of the Barcan captives in a village in Bactria, which was still flourishing in Herodotus' time.^[7]^[8] By the second half of the fifth century, Barca seems to have been the dominant city in the region.^[9]

In 324 BC, a Spartan mercenary leader, Thibron, joined forces with Cyrenean and Barcan exiles on Crete and invaded Cyrenaica.^[10] He was expelled, but returned in 322 BC.^[11] Cyreneans appealed to Ptolemy I who sent troops. Barca was absorbed into the Ptolemaic empire along with the rest of Cyrenaica. It was quickly eclipsed by its old port, which now received the name Ptolemais.^[2] Its decline was significant enough that when the Pentapolis, the league of the five most prominent cities of Cyrenaica, developed in the late Hellenistic period, Barca was not a member.^[2] Although small, it remained inhabited during the Roman and Byzantine periods.^[2] It was part of the province of Crete and Cyrenaica until 293, when it became part of the new province of Libya Superior, which formed part of the Praetorian prefecture of the East after 337.

Medieval Barqa

Barca was one of the first cities to be taken by the Arabs in 643–644 during the Islamic conquest of North Africa. It originally served as the capital of the Barqah province of the Caliphate. The city's name, Arabized as Barqah, came to refer to the former state and province of Cyrenaica.^[12]^[2] Barca remained a significant city in the tenth century under the Fatimids and Al-Bakri reports that it was a wealthy city which exported wool, honey and fruit.^[2] The attacks of Banu Hilal in the 11th century led to a sharp decline and at some point it ceased to be inhabited.^[2] When the Ottoman Turks conquered the region in 1521, they used the Turkish form "Barka" for the province, but did not retain the city's status as its capital. The Ottomans used ancient ruins as building material for a castle at the site a little before 1852, when it was visited by James Hamilton.^[2] The castle was destroyed in the 1963 Marj earthquake.^[2]

Religion

Early Christianity was spread from Palestine to Cyrenaica, a center of the Jewish community in Africa, by Mark of Cyrene and Simon of Cyrene. Synesius of Cyrene (370–414 AD), Bishop of Ptolemais, received his instruction at Alexandria in both the Catechetical School and the Museion, and he retained a great deal of reverence and affection for Hypatia, the last pagan Neoplatonist, whose classes he had attended. Synesius was raised to the episcopate by Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, in 410.

In accordance with a ruling of the Council of Nicaea in 325, Cyrenaica is recognized as ecclesiastically dependent on the See of Alexandria. Pentapolis is therefore included in the titles used both by the patriarch of the Coptic Church^[13] and by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.^[14]

Although it was often destroyed and then restored during the Roman period, becoming a mere borough, Barca was, nevertheless, the seat of a bishopric. The bishops who participated in the First Council of Nicaea in 325 included the Arian Zopyros of Barca.^[15] Zenobius signed the acts of the Council of Ephesus in 431^[16] and Theodorus took part in the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449,^[17] whose decisions were overthrown by the Council of Chalcedon in 451.^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

Orthodox titular see

The Metropolitan of Western Pentapolis held the most senior position in the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church after that of the Pope of Alexandria. Since the demise of that eparchy as a major Archiepiscopal Metropolis in the days of Pope John VI of Alexandria, the position is held as a titular see attached to another diocese.

Latin catholic titular see

Also for the Catholic Church, Barca, no longer a residential bishopric, is today listed as a titular see.^[22] Over the past century there have been 11 bishops of the Catholic titular See. The most recent has been Andraos Salama prior to his appointment as bishop of the Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Giza.^[23]

References

Citations

^ Matthew S. Gordon; Chase F. Robinson; Everett K. Rowson; Michael Fishbein, eds. (2017). The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1): An English Translation. Brill. p. 182. ISBN 9789004364141.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kenrick 2013, pp. 108–109
^ Kenrick 2013, p. 68.
^ Rosamilia 2023, p. 20.
^ Kenrick 2013, p. 3.
^ Rosamilia 2023, p. 21.
^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Barca
^ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
^ Rosamilia 2023, p. 23.
^ Rosamilia 2023, p. 25.
^ Rosamilia 2023, p. 26.
^ "Barce" Encyclopædia Britannica (1964 edition) p. 153
^ Atiya, Aziz S. "The Copts and Christian Civilization" Coptic.net, accessed 19 May 2009
^ "The Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa". Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, t. II, coll. 693 e 698.
^ Mansi, op. cit., t. IV, coll. 1221 e 1367.
^ Mansi, op. cit., volVI, col. 926 e 933.
^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 625-626
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462
^ Raymond Janin, v. Barca in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, coll. 669-670
^ Louis Petit, "Barca" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1907) Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 846
^ David Cheney, Diocese of Barca, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

Bibliography

Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Barca" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt, p. 430
Heinrich Gelzer, Patrum Nicaenorum nomina, p. 231
Kenrick, Philip M. (2013). Cyrenaica. London: Silphium Press. ISBN 9781900971140.
Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung, I, p. 459
Rosamilia, Emilio (2023). La città del silfio. Istituzioni, culti ed economia di Cirene classica ed ellenistica attraverso le fonti epigrafiche (in Italian). Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore. ISBN 9788876427367.
Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte (in German)

32°29′54″N 20°53′34″E / 32.49833°N 20.89278°E / 32.49833; 20.89278

[Gordon-1] Matthew S. Gordon; Chase F. Robinson; Everett K. Rowson; Michael Fishbein, eds. (2017). The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1): An English Translation. Brill. p. 182. ISBN 9789004364141.

[KC-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Kenrick 2013, pp. 108–109

[FOOTNOTEKenrick201368-3] Kenrick 2013, p. 68.

[FOOTNOTERosamilia202320-4] Rosamilia 2023, p. 20.

[FOOTNOTEKenrick20133-5] Kenrick 2013, p. 3.

[FOOTNOTERosamilia202321-6] Rosamilia 2023, p. 21.

[7] Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Barca

[8] "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".

[FOOTNOTERosamilia202323-9] Rosamilia 2023, p. 23.

[FOOTNOTERosamilia202325-10] Rosamilia 2023, p. 25.

[FOOTNOTERosamilia202326-11] Rosamilia 2023, p. 26.

[12] "Barce" Encyclopædia Britannica (1964 edition) p. 153

[13] Atiya, Aziz S. "The Copts and Christian Civilization" Coptic.net, accessed 19 May 2009

[14] "The Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa". Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

[15] Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, t. II, coll. 693 e 698.

[16] Mansi, op. cit., t. IV, coll. 1221 e 1367.

[17] Mansi, op. cit., volVI, col. 926 e 933.

[18] Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 625-626

[19] Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462

[20] Raymond Janin, v. Barca in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, coll. 669-670

[21] Louis Petit, "Barca" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1907) Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[22] Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 846

[23] David Cheney, Diocese of Barca, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

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Barca (ancient city)

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Orthodox titular see

Latin catholic titular see

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References

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