Acre

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Acre is an ancient port city on the Mediterranean coast of present-day Israel, renowned for its well-preserved Crusader and Ottoman architecture and its long, strategic history.

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This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

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Generate an image of Acre (Acre is an ancient port city on the Mediterranean coast of present-day Israel, renowned for its well-preserved Crusader and Ottoman architecture and its long, strategic history.)

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Acre canonical 172
Acre (at times) 1
Acre (probable) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf World Heritage Site ⓘ
city ⓘ
port city ⓘ
alternativeName Akka ⓘ
Akka al-ʿAtīqa ⓘ
Akko ⓘ
Akkō ⓘ
Ptolemais ⓘ
Saint-Jean-d’Acre ⓘ
averageAnnualRainfall around 600–700 mm ⓘ
climate Mediterranean climate ⓘ
coordinateLatitude 32.923 ⓘ
coordinateLongitude 35.071 ⓘ
country Israel ⓘ
defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces in 1799 ⓘ
economicActivity fishing ⓘ
small-scale industry ⓘ
tourism ⓘ
elevation approximately 8 meters ⓘ
foundedInCentury Bronze Age ⓘ
governedBy Acre Municipality ⓘ
hasArchitecturalStyle Crusader architecture ⓘ
Ottoman architecture ⓘ
hasEthnicCommunity Arab ⓘ
linked to: Arabs

Baháʼí ⓘ
linked to: Baha'i Faith

Christian ⓘ
Jewish ⓘ
Muslim ⓘ
hasLandmark Acre Lighthouse ⓘ
Al-Jazzar Mosque ⓘ
Citadel of Acre ⓘ
linked to: Saint-Jean-d’Acre

Knights’ Halls ⓘ
hasPortFunction commercial ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
marina ⓘ
hasStructure Crusader fortress ⓘ
bazaars ⓘ
city walls ⓘ
harbor ⓘ
khans ⓘ
mosques ⓘ
historicalEvent Siege of Acre (1189–1191) ⓘ
Siege of Acre (1291) ⓘ
Siege of Acre (1799) ⓘ
historicalRole key Ottoman provincial center ⓘ
major Crusader stronghold ⓘ
languageSpoken Arabic ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
locatedIn Northern District, Israel ⓘ
locatedOn Bay of Haifa ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
nativeName עַכּוֹ ⓘ
عكّا ⓘ
nativeNameLanguage Arabic ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
nearbyCity Haifa ⓘ
nearbySite Baháʼí Gardens in Acre ⓘ
linked to: Baháʼí Gardens
partOf Western Galilee ⓘ
linked to: Galilee
population approximately 50,000 ⓘ
religiousSignificance important to the Baháʼí Faith ⓘ
servedAs capital of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem at times ⓘ
transportConnection Highway 4 ⓘ
coastal railway line of Israel ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria (ii) ⓘ
(iii) ⓘ
(v) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageDesignationYear 2001 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus Old City of Acre ⓘ
linked to: Saint-Jean-d’Acre
wasImportantInPeriod British Mandate period ⓘ
Byzantine period ⓘ
Crusader period ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
Mamluk period ⓘ
linked to: Mamluk Sultanate

Ottoman period ⓘ
linked to: Ottoman Empire

Roman period ⓘ

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Referenced by (174)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nachmanides → deathPlace → Acre ⓘ
subject linked to: Nachmanides (Ramban)
Nachmanides → settledIn → Acre ⓘ
subject linked to: Nachmanides (Ramban)
Siege of Acre → place → Acre ⓘ
Bahá'í Faith → hasAdministrativeCenter → Acre ⓘ
subject linked to: Baha'i Faith
Joan of Acre → birthPlace → Acre ⓘ
Palestine → hasMajorCity → Acre ⓘ
Outremer → capital → Acre ⓘ
Akko → alternateName → Acre ⓘ
Jezzar Pasha → residence → Acre ⓘ
Jezzar Pasha → deathPlace → Acre ⓘ
Ottoman Syria → majorCity → Acre ⓘ
Akka → alternativeName → Acre ⓘ
Ptolemais → locatedIn → Acre ⓘ