Sanjak of Acre

The District of Acre or Sanjak Akka was one of the districts of the Damascus Wilayah established by the Ottoman Empire in Ottoman Syria. The city of Acre was the district's capital.

During the Crusades, the term "District of Acre" was used to identify the city of Acre itself. In the 16th century Akka was the principal urban centre of a nahiya ("subdistrict") as part of liwa' of Safad. The Ottoman Empire took over Acre in 1793. In the early 19th century, under Ottoman control, the District of Acre was created, and was added as a subdivision (sanjak) to the Ottoman Province of Syria. In 1888, the Districts of Acre, Latakia, Tripoli, Beirut, and Nablus were separated from Syria and combined with the Province of Beirut.^[1] After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate controlled the District of Acre.^[2][3] In 1948, in the wake of the 1947 UN Partition Plan and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 26 villages in the District of Acre were depopulated by Israeli forces and the area became part of Israel's North District.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ Eurosis European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology
2. ^ Martin Sicker (1999) Reshaping Palestine: from Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831-1922 Greenwood Publishing Group ISBN 0275966399 p 142
3. ^ Jerusalem Fund Sub Districts of the British mandate of Palestine
4. ^ Palestine Remembered District of Acre
5. ^ Operation Ben-Ami