Akko or Acre
The port city of Akko (also known as Acre) is located on a promontory at the northern end of Haifa Bay. The earliest city was founded during the Bronze Age at Tel Akko (in Arabic Tel el-Fukhar mound of the potsherds), just east of the present-day city. Akko is mentioned in ancient written sources as an important city on the northern coast of the La...
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Acre (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, Akko; Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā),[1] is a city
in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel and is
situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of
Haifa Bay.
Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in
the country and historically, was regarded as a strategic
coastal link to the Levant. Acre is the...
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Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in Israel.[4] The name Aak, which appears on the tribute-lists of Thutmose III (c. 16th century BC), may be a reference to Acre.[citation needed] The Amarna letters also mention a place named Akka,[5] as well as the Execration texts, that pre-date them.[6] In the Hebrew Bible, (Judges 1:31), Ak...
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Greek historians refer to the city as Ake, meaning "cure." According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds.[8] Josephus calls it Akre. The name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy Soter, after the partition of the kingdom of Al...
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