Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

The Acre Subdistrict (قضاء عكا, Qadaa Akka; נפת עכו, Nefat Akko) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in modern-day northern Israel, having nearly the same territory, as the modern-day Acre County. The city of Acre 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)
 * Lebanon (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 Israel.

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 (Ein Ya'akov, Ga'aton, Kabri, Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Me'ona)
 * 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 (Ben Ami, (Kabri)
 * al-Ruways
 * Sha'ab
 * Suhmata (Hosen, 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)