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Qara, Syria
Qara
or
Kara
(Arabic:
قارة
) is a
Syrian
city in the
An-Nabek District
of the
Rif Dimashq Governorate
. It is located between the
Qalamoun Mountains
and the
Eastern Lebanon mountains range
, north of the capital
Damascus
on the road to the city of
Homs
. According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics
(CBS), Qara had a population of 12,508 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are mostly
Sunni Muslims
and
Greek Orthodox
and
Catholic
Christians.
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