ACCHO, called since Ptolemais, lay north of Mount Carmel, with a Harbour to the Sea. It fell to the Tribe of Asher, upon Judg. i. 31. vide & Jos. xix. 25. in Græco.the division. They who were employed in the holy Wars called it Acra. The River Belus falls into the Mediterranean at the foot of Accho, towards the North of this City. The Israelites would not extirpate the Inhabitants of Accho; and it continued in the hands of the Canaanites, or Phœnicians. It is often mentioned in the Books of the Maccabees under the name of Ptolemais.
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