A crusader stronghold in its hey days, it has a port and ships carrying crusaders came into the Holy land through here. It was their capital. It was named St John d'Acre after the knights Hospitalier of St John. After the fall of Jerusalem it became a Muslim enclave but Israel captured it back in 1948 and since then hordes of Jewish people from Russia and the Ukraine has been settling here. Today the old city is predominantly Muslim and nearby are the Jewish and the Christians.
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