Akra may refer to:
Places
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Acra (fortress)
The Acra (also spelled Akra, from grc, Ἄκρα, he, חקרא ,חקרה ''Ḥaqra(h)''), with the meaning of "stronghold" (see under "Etymology"), was a place in Jerusalem thought to have had a fortified compound built by Antiochus Epiphanes ...
, a Seleucid fortress in Jerusalem
*Akra, hamlet in Greene County (see
Cairo, New York
Cairo is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 6,644 at the 2020 census. The town is in the southern part of the county, partly in the Catskill Park. The town contains a hamlet, also named Cairo.
History
The fi ...
) where Jack "Legs" Diamond is rumored to have had a home
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Akra, Bannu, an archaeological site south of Peshawar in Pakistan
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Akra, Maheshtala,
South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...
, West Bengal, India
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Akra railway station
Akra railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Budge Budge Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It serves the local area of Akra in Sou ...
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Akra Peninsula
Akra Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Акра, poluostrov Akra, ) is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 11 km eastwards from Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, and 5.2 km wide, bounded by Exasperation Inlet to the north and S ...
, a peninsula in Antarctica
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Akra Township, Pembina County, North Dakota, a township in North Dakota, USA
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Akra Leuke
Lucentum ( grc-gre, Λούκεντον, ''Loúkenton''), called Lucentia by Pomponius Mela, is the Roman predecessor of the city of Alicante, Spain. Particularly, it refers to the archaeological site in which the remains of this ancient settlemen ...
, ancient city founded by Greeks, modern Alicante, Spain
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Akra, Crimea Akra ( grc, Ἄκρα) was an ancient Greek city at the Cimmerian Bosporus. The city is now underwater at the Kerch Strait, near the Naberezhne village in Crimea. It was flooded as a result of the transgression of the Black Sea and is now almost ent ...
, a submerged ancient Greek city in Crimea
People
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Yasser Akra (born 1985), Syrian footballer
See also
*Aakra or
Åkra (disambiguation)
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Accra
Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...
, the capital of Ghana
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Acra (disambiguation)
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Acre (disambiguation)
An acre is a unit of measurement used for areas of land.
Acre may also refer to:
Places
*Acre, Israel, a port city in Israel
**Sanjak of Acre, a prefecture of the Ottoman Empire, located in present-day Israel
*Acre (state), a Brazilian state
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Akre (disambiguation)
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Aqra (disambiguation)
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