a town of Africa, on the coast of Guinea, where the English, Dutch, and Danes, have strong forts, and each fort its particular village. W. long. c. 2. lat. 5. o.

(Jofephus); 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 Acra, from the fortress which Antiochus built there, in order to annoy the temple, and which Simon Maccabaeus took and razed to the ground.