Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

The Acre Subdistrict (Arabic: قضاء عكا, Qadaa Akka; Hebrew: נפת עכו, Nefat Akko) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in what is now northern Israel, having nearly the same territory as the modern-day Acre County. The city of Acre was the district's capital.

Acre Subdistrict قضاء عكا נפת עכו
Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine
1920–1948
Capital	Acre
Area
• 1945	799 km2 (308 sq mi)
Population
• 1904	31,593
• 1945	68,330
History
• Established	1920
• Disestablished	1948
Preceded by Succeeded by Sanjak of Acre Israel
Today part of	Israel

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

Districts and Sub-Districts of Palestine in 1945.

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

Official population statistics for the sub-district, from Village Statistics, 1945.

(current localities in parentheses)

Main article: Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

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)