Thomas A. Carlson (ed.), "Qara" in last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/161
    
        
            
                
                    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
                    
                    
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                        Attestation of name قارة in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.
                        
                    
          
                        
                        
                    
                    http://syriaca.org/place/161
                    http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668221
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarah,_Syria
                    http://dbpedia.org/resource/Qarah,_Syria
                    
                                            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