al-Bassa ' (, also known as Betzet in ) was a Palestinian Arab village in the British Mandate of Palestine's District of Acre.

Al-Birwa (, al-Birweh ) was a Palestinian Arab village, located east of Acre ( Akka ).

Al-Sumayriyya (, Katasir in Canaanite times, Someleria during Crusader rule ) was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Tamra (, or ) is an Israeli Arab city in the North District of Israel located in the Lower Galilee north of the city of Shefa -' Amr and approximately east of Akko ( Acre ).

Al-Damun (, Dâmûn ) was a Palestinian Arab village located from the city of Acre that was depopulated during 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Rio Branco (, White River ) is a Brazilian city, capital of the state of Acre.

In 1938 the kibbutz was moved to the coast in the area of Acre as a " tower and stockade " settlement, and was renamed Mishmar HaYam (, lit.

An ancient Hebrew legend tells that the sea flooded the world and when it reached the shore of Acre it stopped short, as is written in the Book of Job ( 38: 11 ) “ Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further .” In the legend, the Hebrew words “ Ad po ” become “ Ad ko ,” and, hence, Akko.

* Antiochia Ptolemais, now Acre, Israel or Akko

It was situated close to the Lebanese border, north of the district capital, Akko ( Acre ), and above sea level.

File: Akko BW 13. JPG | Khan al-Umdan in Acre, Israel

The Siege of Acre ( In Turkish Akka Kuşatması ) of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre ( now Akko in modern Israel ) and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria.

* Acre, Israel, the English name for the ancient city called Akko in Hebrew and Akka in Arabic

* Old City of Akko ( Acre )

At the end of the 13th century, following the Muslim conquest of the port city of Akko ( Acre ) and the end of Crusader rule in the Holy Land, the fortress lost strategic value and fell into disrepair.

In 1252, the Sultan delivered Longespée's remains to a messenger who conveyed them to Acre ( Akko ) for burial at the church of St. Cross.

On July 8, 2008, the Shrine of the Báb, along with several other Bahá ' í holy sites in Haifa and the nearby city of Acre ( Akko ), were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The ancient city of Acre / Akko has been besieged numerous times in its history.

Hugh III's authority on the mainland began to break down ; he was an unpopular king, and Beirut, the only territory left outside of Acre and Tyre, started to act independently.

Charles of Anjou also died in 1285, and the military orders and the commune of Acre accepted Henry II as king ; Odo Poilechen refused to recognize him, but was allowed to hand Acre over to the Templars rather than Henry directly, and the Templars then handed it to the king.

In Jerusalem, the royal family lived firstly on the Temple Mount, before the foundation of the Knights Templar, and later in the palace complex surrounding the Tower of David ; there was another palace complex in Acre.

Both Napoleon and Al Jazzar, the governor of Acre, requested assistance from the Shihab leader ; Bashir, however, remained neutral, declining to assist either combatant.

Philip ( right ) and Richard accepting the keys to Acre, Israel | Acre ; from the Grandes Chroniques de France.

* Mamluk sultan of Egypt Qalawun signs a 10-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre ; he will violate the truce on pretexts in 1290.

* 1271 – Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars ; however, they are unable to capture any territory and a peace is quickly negotiated.

* 1284 – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Qalawun signs a ten-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre ; he will violate the truce on pretexts in 1290.

* Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars ; however, they are unable to capture any territory and a peace is quickly negotiated.

In 1179, William was one of the delegates from Jerusalem and the other crusader states at the Third Lateran Council ; among the others were Heraclius, archbishop of Caesarea, Joscius, bishop of Acre and William's future successor in Tyre, the bishops of Sebastea, Bethlehem, Tripoli, and Jabala, and the abbot of Mount Sion.

Of Frederick's crusade, Philip of Novara, a chronicler of the period, said " The emperor left Acre the conclusion of the truce ; hated, cursed, and vilified.

The bishop of Acre was correct in thinking that a great King had conquered Persia ; however " King David ", as it turned out, was no benevolent Nestorian monarch nor even a Christian, but the Tengrist warlord Genghis Khan.

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

He started a cemetery in 1822, known as " God's Acre " as well as Butler Cemetery ; this is reputed to be the earliest cemetery in the county.

The ZIP Code 01854 is the northwestern portion of the city and includes Pawtucketville ; the University of Massachusetts Lowell ; and the Acre.

Historian Magnus Alexander hypotheses the castle might have been built on top of a set of pre-existing Anglo-Saxon, high prestige buildings, a practice common elsewhere in East Anglia, possibly echoing the arrangement at Castle Acre ; this would be most likely if the castle was built in the 11th century.

Baldwin held a council at Acre in 1148 to decide on a target ; control of Aleppo in the north would allow the crusaders to restore Edessa to Christian control, but capturing Damascus in the south would limit the power of the Zengids and add to Jerusalem's power and influence.

* Knowes Mill ; Acre Plantation ; Tyninghame Bridge, A198 ; Firth Plantation

After his ordination he declined a teacher's position, recommending in his stead a more needy friend, R. Abba of Acre ( Acco ), as worthier than himself ( Sotah, 40a ).

" What ," said Abbahu, " is my modesty as compared with that of R. Abba of Acre ( Acco ), who does not even remonstrate with his interpreter for interpolating his own comments in the lecturer's expositions.

Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee ( Galil Elyon ), Lower Galilee ( Galil Tahton ), and Western Galilee ( Galil Ma ' aravi ), extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa north of Jenin and Tulkarm to the south, and from the Jordan Rift Valley to the east across the plains of the Jezreel Valley and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Coastal Plain in the west.

Sultan Qutuz of Egypt eventually defeated the Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut ( near Ein Harod ) and his successor ( and assassin ), Baibars, eliminated the last Crusader Kingdom of Acre in 1291, thereby ending the Crusades.

With help from the Italian city-states and other adventurers, notably King Sigurd I of Norway, Baldwin captured the port cities of Acre ( 1104 ), Beirut ( 1110 ), and Sidon ( 1111 ), while exerting his suzerainty over the other crusader states to the north – Edessa ( which he had founded in 1097 during the crusade ), Antioch, and Tripoli, which he helped capture in 1109.

# Conrad ( Modigliana, February 1167 – Acre, 20 January 1191 ), later renamed Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia after the death of his older brother.

* May 18 – Al-Ashraf Khalil of Egypt captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem ( the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades ), and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades, by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land ( see Siege of Acre ( 1291 )).

The town soon became home to Hell's Half Acre, the biggest collection of bars, dance halls and bawdy houses south of Dodge City, Kansas ( the northern terminus of the Chisholm Trail ), giving Fort Worth the nickname of " The Paris of the Plains ".

The name Aak, which appears on the tribute-lists of Thutmose III ( c. 16th century BC ), may be a reference to Acre.

In 1227, after Gregory IX became pope, Frederick and his army set sail from Brindisi, Italy, for Acre ( then the capital of the truncated Kingdom of Jerusalem ), but an epidemic forced Frederick to return to Italy.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 2001 ), an audio adaptation by the BBC starring Jane Lapotaire, Tom Wilkinson, and Peter Acre was published as an audio book in 2001 and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2009.

He has even starred in his own film, The Tigger Movie ( Disney, 2000 ), along with his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood.

* Acre ( state ), a state in Brazil

Some of the Alien Priories were allowed to become naturalised ( for instance Castle Acre Priory ), on payment of heavy fines and bribes, but for the rest their fates were sealed when Henry V dissolved them by act of Parliament in 1414.

Fulk ( in French: Foulque or Foulques ; 1089 / 1092 Angers – 13 November 1143 Acre ), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou ( as Fulk V ) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

* Louis of Acre ( c. 1235 – 1263 ), who married Agnes of Beaumont and became Viscount of Beaumont in her right.

Margaret de Clare, Countess of Cornwall, Countess of Gloucester ( October 1293 – April 1342 ), was an English noblewoman, heiress, and the second eldest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and his wife, Joan of Acre, making her a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 2009, with the new orthographic agreement, the change generated controversy between the Academy of Letters of Acre ( Academia Acreana de Letras ) and the Brazilian Academy of Letters ( Academia Brasileira de Letras ), alleging that the change would mean the denial of the state's historical and cultural roots, changing the last letter of the toponym from " E " to " I ".