a town of Africa, on the coast of Guinea, where the English, Dutch, and Danes, have strong forts, and each fort has its particular village. W. Long. 0. 2. N. Lat. 5. 0.

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 Acrea, from the fortress which Antiochus built there in order to annoy the temple, and which Simon Maccabaeus took and razed to the ground.

ACRA Joppigia, 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 Acracernum of Epirus.