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The Acre Subdistrict (, ''
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Akka''; , ''Nefat Akko'') was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in what is now northern
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, having nearly the same territory as the modern-day Acre County. The city of
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was the district's capital. The subdistrict was transformed into Northern District's Acre Subdistrict.


Borders

* Safad Subdistrict (East) * Tiberias Subdistrict (East) * Nazareth Subdistrict (South) * Haifa Subdistrict (South West) *
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(North)


History of attachment to a district

The layout of the districts of Mandatory Palestine changed several times: * 1922 Northern District * 1937 Galilee District * 1939 Galilee and Acre District * 1940 Galilee District * 1948 dissolution The territory is now covered by the Northern District of
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.


Depopulated towns and villages

(current localities in parentheses) * Amqa ( Amka) * Arab al-Samniyya ( Ya'ara) * al-Bassa ( Betzet, Rosh HaNikra, Shlomi, Tzahal) * al-Birwa ( Ahihud, Yas'ur) * al-Damun ( Yas'ur) * Dayr al-Qassi ( Abirim, Elkosh, Mattat, Netu'a) * al-Ghabisiyya ( Netiv HaShayara * Iqrit ( Even Menachem, Goren, Shomera) * Khirbat Iribbin ( Adamit, Goren) * Khirbat Jiddin ( Ga'aton, Qiryat, Yehiam) * al-Kabri (
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, Ga'aton, Kabri,
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,
Me'ona Me'ona () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located between Ma'alot-Tarshiha and Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1949 by Jewish exodus f ...
) * Kafr 'Inan ( Kfar Hananya) * Kuwaykat ( Beit HaEmek) * al-Manshiyya ( Bustan HaGalil, Shomrat) * al-Mansura ( Abbirim, Biranit, Elkosh, Mattat, Netu'a) * Mi'ar ( Atzmon, Ya'ad) * al-Nabi Rubin ( Even Menachem, Shomera, Shtula, Zar'it) *
al-Nahr al-Nahr (), was a Palestinian village northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the v ...
( Ben Ami, ( Kabri) * al-Ruways * Sha'ab * Suhmata (
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, Tzuriel) * al-Sumayriyya ( Bustan HaGalil, Lohamei HaGeta'ot, Shomrat) * Suruh ( Even Menachem, Shomera, Shtula, Zar'it) * al-Tall * Tarbikha ( Even Menachem, Shomera, Shtula, Zar'it) * Umm al-Faraj ( Ben Ami) * Az-Zeeb ( Gesher HaZiv, Sa'ar) District of Acre Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine States and territories established in the 19th century {{Israel-geo-stub