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Acre (/ ˈ ɑː k ər, ˈ eɪ k ər / AH-kər, AY-kər), known in Hebrew as Akko (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkkō) and in Arabic as Akka (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Roman Syria and the Near East Getty Publications. Los Angeles, 2003 ISBN 0892367156 Moše Šārôn. Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). Volumes 30-31 of Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, v.30 (Handbuch der Orientalistik). Publisher BRILL, 1997 ISBN 9004108335
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names.This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them.; Places whose official names include an Arabic form.
It occupied 559 acres bordered by present-day Roberts Avenue (on the north) and Mabry Street (east). The streets of the military base were identified by letters (Avenue C, Avenue D, etc.) and ...
The standard pronunciation of ج in MSA varies regionally, most prominently in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Levant, Iraq, north-central Algeria, and parts of Egypt, it is also considered as the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world and the pronunciation mostly used in Arabic loanwords across other languages ...
Acre is the widely understood, internationally accepted name for the city. Wikipedia has pages on Jerusalem, not Yerushalayim, Jaffa not Yafo, Safed not Tzfat, Tiberias not Tverya and many other examples. Similarly, articles are about Hebron, not Al-Khalil, Jericho not Ariha and others. This does not only apply to contentious Middle East issues.