Old City of Acre

World Heritage

Israel

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Acre is a historic port city that has been inhabited since the Phoenician period. The present city is an Ottoman fortified town built in the 18th and 19th centuries, with typical urban components such as a castle, mosque, khan and baths. The remains of the Crusader City, built between 1104 and 1291, are almost intact, and both above and below today's streets, show the layout and structure of the medieval capital of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Ottoman aqueduct to Acre

Acre's southern sea wall

The Templar Tunnel

Old City of Acre, 1878 by Félix Bonfils

Carronade near the Old City

Refectory of the Hospitaller fortress

Copy of a 1320 CE map of Acre

Acre Railway Station

Baháʼí shrine outside Acre, Bahji mansion

Interior of Acre prison, circa 1938

Remains of the Crusader-period Pisan Harbour

Letter from Biridiya, King of Megiddo, to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III or his son Akhenaten. B...

Port of Acre

Crusader and Ottoman settlements in Acre

Delila Hatuel

Acre in 1841, as mapped by the British Royal Engineers after the Oriental Crisis of 1840

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Information extracted from Wikidata

category for people who died here	Category:Deaths in Acre
category of associated people	Category:People from Acre, Israel
elevation above sea level	10
area	63.3
area	13.533
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (v)
category for the view of the item	Category:Views of Haifa from Acre
category for the view of the item	Category:Views of Acre (city)
Commons gallery	Acre (city)
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Acre%20banner.jpg
Dewey Decimal Classification	2--56945
described by source	Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line
section, verse, paragraph, or clause	Acre
described by source	Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
capital of	Mosque Sidi Brahim
uses	4068495-7
start time	1948-05-14T00:00:00Z
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aerial%20view%20of%20Acre%201.jpg
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Acre%20-%20Akko%20Tower.jpg
coat of arms image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Acre%2C%20Israel.svg
twinned administrative body	Recklinghausen
start time	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
twinned administrative body	registered archaeological site in Finland
ISNI	0000 0001 0946 407X
executive body	Acre (city)
location of creation	Acre (city)
spoken text audio	ADV11604018
official language	Mosque Sidi Brahim
male population	1207296
IPA transcription	1806588
visitors per year	01110b
visitors per year	12553b
CIVICUS Monitor country entry	akka
number of rooms	lccn-n80001043
topographic prominence	1122
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/0fgjl
Commons category	Acre (city)
local dialing code	972 4
coordinate location	Point(35.083888888 32.926111111)
significant event	Siege of Acre
significant event	Ujigami Shrine
official website	http://www.akko.org.il/

area	22.99
applies to part	buffer zone
copyright license	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Norway
mapping relation type	exact match
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described by source	Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
statement is subject of	Ake (Pauly-Wissowa)
described by source	The Nuttall Encyclopædia
stated as	Acre, St. Jean d'
described by source	Lake Malawi
language of work or name	Old West Norse
section, verse, paragraph, or clause	10
stated as	Akersborg
start time	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	مدينة عكّا القديمة
official name	Old City of Acre
official name	Ciudad vieja de Acre
official name	Vieille ville d’Acre
official name	アッコ旧市街
official name	Oude stad van Acre
official name	Старый город в Акре (Акко)
official name	阿克古城
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (v)
start time	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	1948-05-14T00:00:00Z
country	Kingdom of Jerusalem
start time	1191-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	1291-01-01T00:00:00Z
country	Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
start time	1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
country	Ottoman Empire
start time	1517-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time	1948-05-14T00:00:00Z
end time	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
located in the administrative territorial entity	Kingdom of Jerusalem
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located in the administrative territorial entity	Egypt Eyalet
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located in the administrative territorial entity	Mosque Sidi Brahim
start time	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
located in the administrative territorial entity	Damascus Eyalet
start time	1516-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	1831-01-01T00:00:00Z
twinned administrative body	Saint-Mandé
start time	2011-05-16T00:00:00Z