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{{short description|Ottoman prefecture in today's Israel}}
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|native_name            = سنجق عكا
|conventional_long_name = Sanjak of Acre<br>Akka Sancağı
|common_name            = Sanjak of Acre
|subdivision            = [[sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire|sanjak]]
|nation                 = the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br>Under [[Damascus Eyalet]] (1519–1660)<br>Under [[Sidon Eyalet]] (1660–1864)<br>Under [[Syria Vilayet]] (1864–1888)<br>Under [[Beirut Vilayet]] (1888–1918)
|year_start             = {{circa|18th century}}
|event_end              = [[Armistice of Mudros]]
|year_end               = 1918
|date_end               =
|image_coat             =
|image_map              = Sanjak of Acre, Ottoman Empire, 1914.png
|image_map_caption      = Sanjak of Acre in 1914
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The '''Sanjak of Acre''' ({{langx|ar|سنجق عكا}}; {{langx|tr|Akka Sancağı}}), often referred as '''Late Ottoman Galilee''', was a prefecture ([[sanjak]]) of the [[Ottoman Empire]], located in modern-day northern [[Israel]]. The city of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] was the Sanjak's capital.
Acre was captured by the Ottoman Sultan [[Selim I]] in 1517, but the city fell into disuse soon thereafter and was governed under the [[Sanjak of Safad]] during 16th-18th centuries. Acre was the center of the Nahiya of Acre, a subdistrict of the sanjak, which also included the villages of [[Peki'in|Buqei'a]], [[Al-Tira, Haifa|Al-Tira]], [[Julis]], [[Kafr Yasif]], [[Kabul, Israel|Kabul]] and [[Shefa-'Amr]].<ref name="DavidOrdan2010.27">{{cite book|first1=Abraham |last1= David |others=Dena Ordan (translator) |title=To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqy4wqVbSUkC&pg=PA27 |accessdate=24 October 2011 |date= 2010 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5643-9 |at= pp. 27-28}}</ref> Acre was the center of a major economic boom under the leadership of [[Zahir al-Umar]] during the late 18th century.
The Sanjak of Acre was created c. early 18th century as a prefecture of the [[Sidon Eyalet]]. The Sidon Eyalet later became known as the Acre Eyalet between 1775 and 1841 when Acre was designated as the eyalet's capital city. Following the promulgation of the Vilayet Law as per the then-ongoing [[Tanzimat]], or administrative reforms, in 1864, the sanjak of Acre was annexed to the newly created [[Syria Vilayet]]. In 1888, the sanjaks of Acre, [[Sanjak of Latakia|Latakia]], [[Tripoli Sanjak|Tripoli]], [[Beirut Sanjak|Beirut]], and [[Nablus Sanjak|Nablus]] were separated from the Syria Vilayet and transferred to the [[Beirut Vilayet]].<ref>[http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/950 Eurosis] European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology</ref>
== Subdistricts ==
The sanjak was made up of five districts ([[kaza]]s):
* Kaza of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] (Akka)
* Kaza of [[Haifa]] (Hayfa)
* Kaza of [[Safed]]
* Kaza of [[Nazareth]] (Nasıra)
* Kaza of [[Tiberias]] (Taberiye)
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[[Category:District of Acre]]
[[Category:States and territories established in 1519]]
[[Category:Ottoman Galilee]]
[[Category:Sanjaks of Damascus Eyalet]]
[[Category:1510s establishments in the Ottoman Empire]]
[[Category:1918 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire]]