Acra (fortress)
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The Acra, meaning "stronghold", was a location in Jerusalem thought to have contained a fortified compound built by Antiochus Epiphanes, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, following his sack of the city in
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Antonio Ciseri's Martyrdom of the Maccabees (1863), depicting an episode from Antiochus IV's (seated) persecution of the Jews.
Judas besieging the Acra (Alba Bible, 1430)
Seam along eastern wall of Temple Mount separating Hellenistic (right) from Herodian (left) construction
Old City of Jerusalem
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The Old City of Jerusalem is a 0.9-square-kilometre walled area in East Jerusalem.
Acra (fortress)
…Edward Robinson proposed the area near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the site of the Acra, at least nine different locations in and around the Old City of Jerusalem have been put forward. The available sources do indicate the Acra stood south of the temple, and because 1 Maccabees is a contemporaneous account of…
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