ACRA, in Ancient Geography, one of the hills of Jerusalem, on which stood the lower town, which was the old Jerusalem; to which was afterwards added Zion, or the city of David. Probably called Aera, from the fortress which Antiochus built there in order to annoy the temple, and which Simon Maccabæus took and razed to the ground.
Aera Japygia, in Ancient Geography, called Salentia by Ptolemy; now Capo di San Maria di Leuca: A promontory in the kingdom of Naples, to the south-east of Otranto, where formerly was a town, now lying in ruins, on the Ionian sea, over against the Montes Acrocerani of Epirus.