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Accho
(the [39]ptolemais of the maccabees and new testament), Nowcalled Acca, or more usually by Europeans St. Jean d Acre, themost important seaport town on the Syrian coast, about 30 milessouth of Tyre. It was situated on a slightly projectingheadland, at the northern extremity of that spacious bay whichis formed by the bold promontory of Carmel on the oppositeside. Later it was named Ptolemais, after one of the Ptolemies,probably Soter. The only notice of it in the New Testament isin (acts 21:7) where it is called Ptolemais .