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Acre

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Formerly Saint Jean d'Acre. Seaport, Palestine, lying north of Mount Carmel, and west of the mountains of Galilee. Under the Romans it was called Ptolemais. Saint Paul landed here on his way from Asia Minor to Jerusalem (Acts 21).

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Entry for 'Acre'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​a/acre.html. 1910.
 
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